Commoncog by Cedric Chin is probably the most influential resource I’ve discovered on the Internet in the last couple of years. It’s deep. It’s grounded. It’s deliberate. It’s insightful. It’s judicious. It’s nuanced. It’s well written. It’s practical. If I were …| Mirek Długosz personal website
Any discussion of practicing mental models must begin with a discussion of rationality. We look at what the research tells us about it.| Commoncog
There has been an uptick in self-help books and blogs about mental models. But, there's a problem when putting it in practice.| Commoncog
A book summary of a 2016 book called Peak which summarised three decades of research into the nature and development of expertise.| Commoncog
Can we take ideas from finance and apply them to the rest of our lives? I've been acting as it is. The truth isn't that simple.| Commoncog
Experts make decisions in ways that are very, very different from conventional decision science models. This makes expertise a lot more important to good decision making than you might think.| Commoncog
Here we try to answer a deceptively simple question: when someone offers advice, how do you evaluate that advice before putting it into practice?| Commoncog
Instrumental rationality is the sort of thinking that allows you to achieve your goals. We take a closer look at what decision science says is the 'best' way to pursue this purpose.| Commoncog
A technique for evaluating non-scientific advice, from practitioners.| Commoncog
What tacit knowledge is, and why it is the most interesting topic in the study of expertise today.| Commoncog
What expertise in Capital looks like in the context of business.| 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
