What if you could reach into the heads of great businesspeople and pluck out the superstructure of their expertise? Commoncog has a unique approach to the study of business. This is that approach. In the late 1980s, the US Military began funding a branch of psychology called ‘Naturalistic Decision Making’| Commoncog
Cognitive Flexibility Theory: the caveats. Also: a look at kind vs wicked learning domains, and what this tells us about building expertise in messy, real world domains.| Commoncog
Why bother learning history, when history isn't likely to repeat itself? We take a look at what Cognitive Flexibility Theory tells us about the best way to learn from other people's experiences.| Commoncog
What Cognitive Flexibility Theory tells us about the acceleration of expertise in ill-structured domains.| Commoncog
Learning from history is often problematic — history is context and path dependent, and it doesn't repeat itself. But what if there is a better way to read history, one that sidesteps these problems?| Commoncog
Everything I know about learning in novel, ill-structured domains, summarised in one piece.| Commoncog