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How to Hunt for Concept Instantiations

If you read history for concept instantiations, then: a) how do you hunt for cases for each concept, and b) how do you identify new concepts from the history you read? We look at answers to both questions.

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Notes from an Alpha Test of a CFT Business Case Library

What we've learnt from creating a simple CFT case library for business.

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Inverting the Cash Strapped Hiring Process

If everyone competent iterates their way to the same kind of hiring process, then you can probably use that process as a smell test when you're evaluating companies.

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What Danny Meyer Did

A look at several concept instantiations embedded in Danny Meyer's 2006 business biography, Setting The Table.

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The Best Incentives Are Hard To Copy

If your incentive set leads to differentiated behaviour, why don't more competitors copy it? Because it's hard to copy, that's why. Here are two reasons how.

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Lousy Incentives In The Restaurant Business

What an understanding of incentives can do for you, through the lens of one industry that we're all familiar with.

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Operating On The Spectrum Of The Rule of Law

In countries with weak institutions, how things should work is often different from how things actually work. A reminder of what that feels like at the ground level.

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How To Hunt For Useful Self Improvement Research

How to hunt for useful expertise research, emotional regulation work, or better learning techniques, straight from the primary literature.

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Graham Duncan on Evaluating Expertise

Notes on the expertise of evaluating expertise, from someone who's obsessed with it.

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Against Single Narratives in Crypto

Why it's important not to hold too tightly to any one explanatory narrative during a period of high uncertainty.

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