Cedric Chin

Announcing a new series about people and businesses handling disruption well (or badly). Why are we doing this? Well, that’s hopefully going to be obvious to you.

Aug 13 2026 9am-12pm CDT / 10pm-12am SGT. A live tactical decision game with the creator of Tactical Decision Games, John Schmitt. TDGs are an accelerated expertise training format developed for the US Marines. Schmitt has kindly agreed to run a TDG and to take questions from the membership.

Building a moat is the difference between having fun with business, vs eating glass all day, every day, for years. This is how moats are actually built.

Also: the quartz crisis isn’t really about quartz at all. A sensemaking exercise for those who want to get better at making sense of possible AI disruption.

Some notes on a series of members-only workshops on Eliyahu Goldratt’s Thinking Tools, presented by Roger Williams.

What happens when a case you commissioned turns out to be based on a mainstream narrative ... that’s false!

Jun 7 2026 6-7pm PDT / Jun 8 2026 9am-10am SGT. Cate Hall joins Commoncog members to talk about agency, the topic of her new book You Can Just Do Things.

A demonstration of how training sensemaking is a path to accelerated expertise.

Some thoughts from watching a demo of a Software Dark Factory.

Jun 1 2026 8-9pm PT / Jun 2 11am-12pm SGT. Jay Taylor and Navan Chauhan will give a presentation of a real software dark factory for members. This Q&A will be moderated by James Cham of Bloomberg Beta.