Cedric Chin

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Cedric Chin

Word slinger, bug fixer, and operator.

Notes from an Alpha Test of a CFT Business Case Library

What we've learnt from creating a simple CFT case library for business.

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Verifying Believability

Believability is a heuristic for practical advice. Here's one surprising way that it can fail.

Inverting the Cash Strapped Hiring Process

If everyone competent iterates their way to the same kind of hiring process, then you can probably use that process as a smell test when you're evaluating companies.

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What Good, Cash-Strapped Hiring Looks Like

Bootstrapped operators who take their hiring seriously all eventually end up designing a system with the same fundamental approach. Here's how you can do it too.

What Danny Meyer Did

A look at several concept instantiations embedded in Danny Meyer's 2006 business biography, Setting The Table.

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Cognitive Flexibility Theory: The Rules

Everything I know about learning in novel, ill-structured domains, summarised in one piece.

The Best Incentives Are Hard To Copy

If your incentive set leads to differentiated behaviour, why don't more competitors copy it? Because it's hard to copy, that's why. Here are two reasons how.

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Pay Attention to Deviations from Mainstream Incentives

The second part of a three part piece on incentives. It turns out that if you've grokked the primary incentives of an industry, you can do one other thing: identify aberrations, and use that as a guide to dig further.

Lousy Incentives In The Restaurant Business

What an understanding of incentives can do for you, through the lens of one industry that we're all familiar with.

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Ability to See Expertise is a Milestone Worth Aiming For

Good news: we have a neat, universal milestone on the journey to mastery. What that looks like, and how to use it.