Cedric Chin

Some free software to create, modify, experiment with and share XmR charts. Unlock the ability to become more data driven today.

A comprehensive summary of W. Edwards Deming's ideas, whose System of Profound Knowledge is one of the most powerful things you'll find on the Operations side of the business expertise triad. Read this, so you don't have to read multiple books to apply his ideas.

Early access to some software we've built to make XmR charts more accessible.

One software engineer's story of extracting expertise from the heads of 'a tiger team of senior software engineers'. Useful to anyone who might want to accelerate their own skills.

Charlie Munger’s biggest business mistake, and what it tells us about wisdom.

People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This is everything you need to know to actually become data driven, from scratch, using the same first principles that Amazon, Koch, and Toyota used back in their day.

If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in her life, then perhaps you could, too.

Everything that we covered in 2023, and what to expect now that Commoncog has a new direction.

How Koch Industries became an empire. We draw on ideas from both the Becoming Data Driven series and the Capital Expertise series.

The creation of Marvel Studios was contingent on some very creative financial dealmaking. A story of superb capital expertise in action.