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.

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

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.