Cedric Chin

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Cedric Chin

Word slinger, bug fixer, and operator.

You Can't Teach What They Aren't Ready to Know

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

Teaching Tech Together

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

What I've Learned From Applying Amy Hoy's Just F*cking Ship

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

A Review of BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits

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.

The Power of Habit

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

A Self Help Audit (May—Oct 2018)

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.

Just F**cking Ship

Amy Hoy's guide to shipping side projects, books, businesses and software — basically, any product you'd like to launch.

Using Head Fake Questions To Achieve Your Career Goals

'Head fake questions' are a useful tool to avoid the opportunity cost that comes from making bad career moves. Here's how to use them.

Don't Take Generic Business Advice From VCs

If you want to start a business as your career moat, don't go looking to startup culture for business advice. Startup wisdom is far less useful than you think.

Breaking Out of the SME Loop, A Story

A story of a Singaporean SME, breaking out of the SME loop.