The Parable of the Promotion Ladder and The Market
There are — loosely speaking — two kinds of advancement games you can play in your career. This is a parable about both.
There are — loosely speaking — two kinds of advancement games you can play in your career. This is a parable about both.
How using frameworks can get in the way of actual sensemaking, and what to do about it.
Lessons I learnt while applying the Good Judgment Project's superforecasting techniques to the COVID-19 outbreak, albeit for personal reasons.
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.
Peak is a 2016 book from K. Anders Ericsson, the leading authority on deliberate practice. It covers 30 years of research into the field, but ultimately fails as a practical guide to putting it to practice.
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You can't pursue expertise if you're scared of starting. Why it's better to get numb first before you focus on getting good.
What do metagames have to do with the acquisition of expertise?
I find it a little difficult to believe that expertise is 'merely' pattern-matching. And yet it seems to have resulted in the some of my best learning outcomes over the past year. A look at my scepticism, in the context of several ideas we've covered in this blog.