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
All great business people share a common, intuitive mental model of business. We look at how researcher Lia DiBello extracted that mental model.| Commoncog
Commoncog uses a unique case approach to business education. What it is, how it works, and why it’s superior to the traditional case method.| Commoncog
I relocated for a three month expertise acceleration experiment in Judo. These are my notes from two months in: what I learnt, what was hard, and what deliberate practice actually feels like.| 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
Cognitive agility is the speed with which an individual is able to update their mental models in response to new information. This is what the study of cognitive agility tells us about how we learn — and fail to learn — in business and in life.| 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
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 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
What expertise in Capital looks like in the context of business.| 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