A lesson from a four month accelerated expertise experiment. Or: why creating new drills for a deliberate practice training program isn't as difficult as you might think.| Commoncog
How do you accelerate learning in ill-structured domains? A series on Cognitive Flexibility Theory, and how to use it.| Commoncog
7 Powers is arguably the best book on business strategy currently available today.| Commoncog
What expertise in Capital looks like in the context of business.| Commoncog
Commoncog Case Library aims to accelerate business expertise using proven cognitive science techniques.| commoncog.com
If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in her life, then perhaps you could, too.| Commoncog
How Koch Industries became an empire. We draw on ideas from both the Becoming Data Driven series and the Capital Expertise series.| Commoncog
Cedric talks to Colin Bryar, early Amazon executive and former shadow to Jeff Bezos, on one of Amazon's secret operational weapons: the Weekly Business Review.| Commoncog
The unspoken secret about new company formation is that you need to get lucky. Roll the dice, get a business outcome. Capital allocation matters because it gives you a path to winning even when you lose the initial roll.| Commoncog
The skill of capital allocation — a mysterious, under-discussed element of remarkable business performance.| Commoncog
What does it mean to be data driven in business? Most people think being data driven means looking at charts on a daily basis. Or they attempt to use data in their orgs, and then fall into one of the many traps that come with the territory. How do you| Commoncog
What a famous investing framework — part of the modern canon of value investing — tells us about the expertise of capital in business.| Commoncog
Results of a four month accelerated expertise experiment in Judo. Or: "I expected to learn about deliberate practice but instead learnt a ton about my mental shortcomings."| Commoncog
Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.| Commoncog
This was the final newsletter edition sent out to subscribers at the end of 2022. A recap of Commoncog's best ideas, and a preview of several upcoming experiments.| Commoncog