My obsession with building career moats stems from my family's experience with the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Some reflections on job security, then and now.

Understanding the underlying business models that underpin your industry often leads to better career moves. Here's what this looks like in practice.

Neil Irwin's 2019 book How to Win is a tactical book on career planning in a the face of macro-economic change.

Piers Steel's Procrastination Equation is a reasonably effective method of tackling procrastination. Here's a summary of the equation.

From Gary Klein's book The Power of Intuition comes a useful overview of dealing with uncertainty.

Notes on augmenting ‘Get Things Done’ time management with a three-tiered model of personal review.

A summary of everything a practitioner needs to know about memory retention when learning, in the pursuit of building career moats.

The rise of the knowledge worker is probably linked to the rise of meditation and mindfulness. When you are paid for your thinking, it pays to have your thinking be the best it can possibly be.

If it's possible to do so, it might be worth it to create a portfolio of mutually-reinforcing career activities. Productivity writer Tiago Forte argues that to do this, consider the point of diminishing returns for each activity, and allocate accordingly.

Some minor housekeeping, related to Commonplace's three principles.