Cedric Chin

Small businesses don't grow large by accident. But most hit an invisible ceiling on the way up. Does strategy matter for breaking past this ceiling?

FIRE — 'financial independence, retire early' is a movement that's taking off amongst millennial knowledge workers. We explore how this relates to career strategy.

If rationality is so important to success in business and in life, how is it possible for an entire generation of superstitious Chinese businessmen to succeed?

Seth Godin's 2005 book is about the practice of marketing in a world of noise. Most of these ideas are now conventional wisdom.

Education robs us of the ability to do trial and error. And yet trial and error is how a generation of traditional Chinese businessmen learnt their craft.

Kim Scott's 2017 book is a how-to guide for the people-side of management. Read as a follow-up to Andy Grove's High Output Management.

The Chinese Businessmen Paradox: what is it that makes uneducated, superstitious Chinese businessmen successful?

Six surprising implications from treating self-help as technê.

Cal Newport's 2016 book Deep Work is a guide to doing valuable work in a world of digital distraction.

Reading self help is but a form of taking advice. Most of it is bullshit. But here's how to do it.