Cedric Chin

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Cedric Chin

Word slinger, bug fixer, and operator.

Applying Derek Siver’s Over-Compensate to Compensate to Software Development

Derek Sivers has this wonderful idea called “Over-Compensate to Compensate”. I try applying it software development.

Ray Dalio's Hyperrealism

A non-comprehensive summary of the first section of Ray Dalio's Life Principles, which concerns itself with ‘dealing with reality’.

Principles

A how-to manual for being effective by Ray Dalio, founder of the most successful hedge fund in the world.

Building Career Moats: A Confession

What authority does this author have for writing about career moats? An honest answer, and an accounting of weaknesses.

Cryptocurrency: fad or disruptive finance industry change?

In which we apply Andy Grove's Strategic Inflection Point analysis to cryptocurrency.

The New Geography of Jobs

Some jobs are getting pushed out of cities. Others aren't. What this means for careers.

The ultimate guide to reading a book a week for your career

Everything that's helped me read a book a week, even with a full-time job.

Only the Paranoid Survive

Strategic inflection points can kill businesses and careers. How do you identify them and prepare your careers in reaction to them?

Average is Over

Machine intelligence and globalisation means some of us will be big winners and others, big losers in the economy of the future.

Reading as the root of career planning

As you might’ve already guessed, my approach to thinking about career planning is to…