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Commoncog helps business leaders and investors make better decisions in uncertain times, by expanding the set of business scenarios that they recognise in their heads.
We research and publish business cases that help you do better, organised according to business concepts, using a theory of accelerated expertise that’s proven to work.
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Commoncog’s Calibration Case Method helps you build the skill of business pattern-matching better, faster. Learn how experts in business and investing master their fields, and copy their method for yourself.
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One lesson a day, for seven days. No spam. Learn the principles of the Calibration Case Method, to use it in your life.
is an evergreen collection of cases arranged into Concept Series — and home to the Calibration Case Method.
A soup-to-nuts, practitioner-oriented journey through the game of business. We test business ideas so you don’t have to.
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Dhirubhai Ambani vs Nusli Wadia, as an example of holding on to political influence as a form of tycoon skill.
Our attempt at applying two theories of accelerated expertise to the first cohort of Speedrunning the Idea Maze.
A live course, limited to 45 people. Applications close 16th January.
How Kwek Leng Beng turned a regional business into a global hotel empire, trampling over a distressed Donald Trump in the process. Part of the Asian Conglomerate Series.
Why successful investors and businesspeople tell you to learn from business history — and what they do so survivorship bias isn’t a problem.
What it looks like when an Asian tycoon gets good at the game of business.
The weird thing about learning business is that some things must be learnt through practice, but some things are best learnt through reading.
What Data General and the minicomputer boom can tell us about our present moment.
Business skill as the ability to cut a messy business problem down to a single, most important thing.
It is a common misperception that you must be able to predict the future to do well. But it’s possible to act without prediction, even in the face of AI. This is how.
What do we actually know about burnout? What does the research say? Is burnout preventable? All the research, in one free, updated place.
The bare minimum you need to know to be an adequate manager. Short enough to finish in three hours. Meaty enough to take 6-8 months to master.
The soup-to-nuts guide to building a career moat. We start from understanding your job market, executing a skills audit, all the way to building and then maintaining a moat.
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