Famous investors read a lot. But it's not enough to copy their reading habit. It turns out there's cognitive theory of expertise that explains how you may get more out of your reading — in order to learn like Charlie Munger.| Commoncog
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We trace Michael Dell's skill at the art of capital in business, and use it to examine how skill at capital allows you to make moves that aren't available to a novice business operator.| Commoncog
Two examples of operators who were strong on the capital side of the business expertise triad, but weak in just about everything else.| Commoncog
How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators? We examine the career of one activist investor, to see what that tells us about the Asian tycoons we’ve been studying.| Commoncog
Everything that we covered in 2024, and what to expect in the coming year.| Commoncog
The birth of Sony, and the possibility that private corporations and private individuals can change broader business ecosystems.| 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
Every experimentation and iteration loop looks the same, but the vast majority of folk in business don't seem to have the discipline to execute till the end. Why this is, and why it's hard.| Commoncog