Cedric Chin

Learning to evaluate the expertise of others as a competitive advantage in itself.

Building effective organisations is a remarkably useful, if rare, skill. This is what it looks like, what it consists of, and how to tell if someone has it.

How every post about expertise and expertise acquisition on this blog fits together. Also a few things I'm currently investigating.

Make sure you're playing the real game, not some more complicated game you've made up for yourself.

Refactoring a network of beliefs built on a largely under-examined worldview.

Cedric talks to David MacIver about ways programmers harm themselves in their careers, mistakes non-technical people make when dealing with programmers, and what it was like pushing the boundaries of property testing.

Accelerated Expertise is the best book we have on creating accelerated training programs today.

The Strategic Rehearsal is a remarkable cognitive science-based training intervention for business. This is a summary of every Strategic Rehearsal ever published.

Much of life is about learning from experience. Not in class. Not mentorship. Not deliberate practice. And so the question: how do you learn better when it comes to learning from trial and error?

Cedric talks to Lia DiBello about cognitive agility, the cognitive science of the strategic rehearsal, and, most importantly: the mental model of business expertise.