Commoncog is about accelerating business expertise. Updates weekly.| Commoncog
All great business people share a common, intuitive mental model of business. We look at how researcher Lia DiBello extracted that mental model.| Commoncog
Every Asian tycoon becomes a tycoon in the exact same way. Learning to see this core pattern is half the battle.| Commoncog
Some implications of using the triad mental model of business as a North Star for learning. Part of a series on business expertise.| Commoncog
David Epstein's mediocre book argues the merits of being a generalist. Instead of reading it, read this and subscribe to Epstein's newsletter.| Commoncog
What can we learn from the study of Asian conglomerates, and the small group of tycoons that control them?| Commoncog
There's a saying commonly attributed to Charlie Munger that goes 'Take a Simple Idea and Take It Seriously'. Work out all the implications. Seek out all the case studies. Here's a story of two investors who did exactly that.| Commoncog
What the best book on business strategy actually looks like in practice. Also: why it's important to read business narratives to learn more.| Commoncog
People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This is everything you need to know to actually become data driven, from scratch, using the same first principles that Amazon, Koch, and Toyota used back in their day.| Commoncog
Everything that we covered in 2023, and what to expect now that Commoncog has a new direction.| 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 a famous investing framework — part of the modern canon of value investing — tells us about the expertise of capital in business.| 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