Knowing The Dip Exists is a Heck of an Advantage
The best ideas from Seth Godin's The Dip — which is really about why quitting early and often is so important to success.
The best ideas from Seth Godin's The Dip — which is really about why quitting early and often is so important to success.
How to take ideas from books and blog posts and turn them into effective personal experiments.
Introducing a new membership program for the Commonplace blog. What's in the offering, how much we're charging, and why.
Range is a mediocre 2019 book by David Epstein that argues for the merits of being a generalist. Read this summary instead of the book, and subscribe to Epstein's newsletter instead.
Ram Charan's 2001 book on business principles is probably the best concise introduction to how a business works.
Neil Irwin's 2019 book How to Win is a tactical book on career planning in a the face of macro-economic change.
April Dunford's book on product positioning is awesome, and has some overlap with those of us who are interested in positioning an individual career.
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The simplest, most useful form of Charlie Munger's 'Inversion' that I've found is to use negative screens in my career. Here's what that looks like.
When reading actionable content, it might be a good idea to read only what you can put to the test.
How learning and using the four theories of truth can help us become better thinkers, better practitioners, and (hopefully!) better writers.