Cedric Chin

A summary of everything I know on the topic of building career moats.

Commonplace is shifting to a 'at least once a week' posting schedule, instead of twice weekly. Here's why.

Regret minimisation is often in direct conflict with optimising for career outcomes. A short reflection.

The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success. It isn't.

If Seymour Papert was right about how humans learn — what does it mean for learning mental models for our careers?

Greg Wilson's Teaching Tech Together is ostensibly about teaching computer programming, but contains a wonderfully written section on how humans learn.

I tried applying the techniques from Amy Hoy's Just F*cking Ship to an overdue project. Here's what I learnt.

Stanford professor BJ Fogg's course on habit design is practical, free, and a marvel of psych-driven education design. My recommendation: try it for yourself and see.

Charles Duhigg's book on habits introduces valuable ideas from academic literature, but is ultimately not very useful to the practitioner.

An audit of all the self help techniques I've written about in the past six months — and how they've fared as I applied them to my life.