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.

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

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

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

Sensemaking is hard. Sensemaking around a possible paradigm shift is even harder. What's the narrative for crypto? What is crypto good for?

Learning to evaluate the expertise of others as a competitive advantage in itself.

How every post about expertise and expertise acquisition on this blog fits together. Also a few things I'm currently investigating.

Refactoring a network of beliefs built on a largely under-examined worldview.

Why good product people talk about iteration, taste, and Christopher Alexander, while novices obsess over the trappings of frameworks.

A look at two syllabuses for learning the art of business, why they're rare, and why to take notice when a practitioner mentions one.