Cedric Chin

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.

Some implications of using the triad mental model of business as a North Star for learning. Part of a series on business expertise.

A few weeks ago, I helped Amplitude head of product education John Cutler extract tacit expertise around diagnosing and improving product organisations. Here's how that went.

Cognitive agility is the speed with which an individual is able to update their mental models in response to new information. This is what the study of cognitive agility tells us about how we learn — and fail to learn — in business and in life.

All great business people share a common, intuitive mental model of business. We look at how researcher Lia DiBello extracted that mental model.