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Ability to See Expertise is a Milestone Worth Aiming For

Good news: we have a neat, universal milestone on the journey to mastery. What that looks like, and how to use it.

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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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Be Good To Your Mentors

Mentor relationships can be absolutely wonderful over the arc of a career. This is a simple way to think about finding and keeping good mentors.

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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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Ill-Structured Domains Aren't Necessarily Wicked

Cognitive Flexibility Theory: the caveats. Also: a look at kind vs wicked learning domains, and what this tells us about building expertise in messy, real world domains.

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The Principles are Useless On Their Own

What happens if cases are more important than principles in your domain? Some non-obvious implications.

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How Note Taking Can Help You Become an Expert

What Cognitive Flexibility Theory tells us about the acceleration of expertise in ill-structured domains.

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The Best Way to Learn From Other People's Experiences

Why bother learning history, when history isn't likely to repeat itself? We take a look at what Cognitive Flexibility Theory tells us about the best way to learn from other people's experiences.

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The Dangers of Treating Life as a Game

Game analogies can be helpful when you're playing to win. But there's a limit to how useful they can be when thinking about life.

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Take a Simple Idea and Take It Seriously

There's a saying commonly attributed to Charlie Munger that goes 'Take a Simple Idea and Take It Seriously'. Work out all the implications. Seek out all the case studies. Here's a story of two investors who did exactly that.