One software engineer's story of extracting expertise from the heads of 'a tiger team of senior software engineers'. Useful to anyone who might want to accelerate their own skills.

Charlie Munger’s biggest business mistake, and what it tells us about wisdom.

People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This is everything you need to know to actually become data driven, from scratch, using the same first principles that Amazon, Koch, and Toyota used back in their day.

If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in her life, then perhaps you could, too.

Everything that we covered in 2023, and what to expect now that Commoncog has a new direction.

How Koch Industries became an empire. We draw on ideas from both the Becoming Data Driven series and the Capital Expertise series.

The creation of Marvel Studios was contingent on some very creative financial dealmaking. A story of superb capital expertise in action.

Announcing the launch of the Commoncog Case Library, setting the Learning in Ill-Structured Domains series free, and one more thing.

Two examples of operators who were strong on the capital side of the business expertise triad, but weak in just about everything else.

Cedric talks to Colin Bryar, early Amazon executive and former shadow to Jeff Bezos, on one of Amazon's secret operational weapons: the Weekly Business Review.