Cedric Chin

David Epstein's mediocre book argues the merits of being a generalist. Instead of reading it, read this and subscribe to Epstein's newsletter.

Why it's useful to do an audit of your job market during this recession — even if you already have a career moat.

The rigour of this entire blog may be captured in a single sentence: use practice as the bar for truth. Here are some implications.

Why ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ isn't as great a thinking tool as you might think.

You're only able to adapt quickly under uncertainty if you see the world as it is. Here's why it's difficult to do that during a pandemic.

Psychological heuristics (or mental shortcuts) tend to get a bad rep today. But heuristics are what makes expertise possible. Here's why heuristics aren't as bad as we make them out to be.

YouTube is the biggest thing to have happened to tacit skill acquisition in the past couple of decades. Here's how to use it.

There are three types of tacit knowledge, all of which 'cannot be captured through words alone'.

Much of expertise is tacit: that is, it cannot be captured through words alone. We look at techniques, drawn from the field of Naturalistic Decision Making, designed to acquire the tacit knowledge of experts.

What tacit knowledge is, and why it is the most interesting topic in the study of expertise today.