Cedric Chin

The rise of the knowledge worker is probably linked to the rise of meditation and mindfulness. When you are paid for your thinking, it pays to have your thinking be the best it can possibly be.

If it's possible to do so, it might be worth it to create a portfolio of mutually-reinforcing career activities. Productivity writer Tiago Forte argues that to do this, consider the point of diminishing returns for each activity, and allocate accordingly.

Some minor housekeeping, related to Commonplace's three principles.

April Dunford's book on product positioning is awesome, and has some overlap with those of us who are interested in positioning an individual career.

Can we take ideas from finance and apply them to the rest of our lives? I've been acting as it is. The truth isn't that simple.

How do you evaluate if a career activity is worth doing? By looking at its component tasks, and calculating the information rate of each step.

What if we treated time management as a bet allocation problem? Say that we have a finite number of hours, which we might spend on a variety of career activities. How do we figure out what to spend our time on, instead of merely thinking about time management as how to tackle our todo lists?

Career moats are inspired by Warren Buffett's conception of a business's 'economic moat'. Here we take a look at a particular type of economic moat, to see what we can take from it when applied to an individual career.

"There is no such thing as a stupid question" is a laudable aphorism. In practice, it's often also wrong.

In which we examine a logical extension of the idea that humans are built to learn from stories. If we're so attuned to stories, can we use this to acquire better career skills, and at a faster pace?