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Commoncog
Practical insights on business, career, and decision-making from Cedric Chin.
commoncog.com
Library
Links to interesting articles, books, and resources.
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Reality has a Surprising Amount of Detail
Understanding the gap between concept and reality.
johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
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The Chess Master and the Computer
Kasparov's essay on human-computer collaboration, introducing the insight that 'weak human + machine + better process' beats both grandmasters and supercomputers alone.
www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/02/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/
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If Management is the Only Way Up, We're All F'd
Rand Fishkin argues for dual career tracks where individual contributors can advance without becoming managers.
sparktoro.com/blog/if-management-is-the-only-way-up-were-all-fd/
Book
The Art of Profitability
Adrian Slywotzky explores 23 profit models through conversations between a mentor and student.
archive.org/details/artofprofitabili00adri
Book
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer presents a framework for understanding the conditions that enable sustained competitive advantage.
7powers.com/
Article
The Hierarchy of Ideas (Chunking)
How to move between big-picture abstractions and fine-grained details—essential for selling and communicating at the right level.
nlppod.com/nlp-hierarchy-ideas-chunking/
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The Bitter Lesson
Rich Sutton argues that general methods leveraging computation consistently outperform approaches that rely on human knowledge.
www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html