Cedric Chin

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.

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

'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.

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.