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Reducing Commonplace's Posting Frequency

Commonplace is shifting to a 'at least once a week' posting schedule, instead of twice weekly. Here's why.

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The Tension Between Optimising Outcomes vs Minimising Regret

Regret minimisation is often in direct conflict with optimising for career outcomes. A short reflection.

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The Mental Model Fallacy

The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success. It isn't.

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You Can't Teach What They Aren't Ready to Know

If Seymour Papert was right about how humans learn — what does it mean for learning mental models for our careers?

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Teaching Tech Together

Greg Wilson's Teaching Tech Together is ostensibly about teaching computer programming, but contains a wonderfully written section on how humans learn.

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What I've Learned From Applying Amy Hoy's Just F*cking Ship

I tried applying the techniques from Amy Hoy's Just F*cking Ship to an overdue project. Here's what I learnt.

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A Review of BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits

Stanford professor BJ Fogg's course on habit design is practical, free, and a marvel of psych-driven education design. My recommendation: try it for yourself and see.

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The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg's book on habits introduces valuable ideas from academic literature, but is ultimately not very useful to the practitioner.

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A Self Help Audit (May—Oct 2018)

An audit of all the self help techniques I've written about in the past six months — and how they've fared as I applied them to my life.

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Just F**cking Ship

Amy Hoy's guide to shipping side projects, books, businesses and software — basically, any product you'd like to launch.