If you can only put two ideas to practice a week, then you're inevitably going to have to deal with a bottleneck of 'to-experiment' ideas.

Why the best way to get a reading speedup is to read a lot about some specific topic.

A thinking trap for those of us who are analytical.

Skills that don't normally appear in a single person are likely to be rare. Unfortunately, they might also be impossible to acquire.

Neuroplasticity is an oft-quoted scientific idea, used to explain skill acquisition. But it's not actually that useful to the practitioner. Here's why.

The best ideas from Seth Godin's The Dip — which is really about why quitting early and often is so important to success.

How to take ideas from books and blog posts and turn them into effective personal experiments.

Introducing a new membership program for the Commonplace blog. What's in the offering, how much we're charging, and why.

The simplest, most useful form of Charlie Munger's 'Inversion' that I've found is to use negative screens in my career. Here's what that looks like.

When reading actionable content, it might be a good idea to read only what you can put to the test.