Business skill as the ability to cut a messy business problem down to a single, most important thing.

Nov 6 2025 9am-10am EST / 10pm-11pm SGT. Jerry Neumann joins Commoncog members to talk about his latest essay ”AI Will Not Make You Rich”.

It is a common misperception that you must be able to predict the future to do well. But it’s possible to act without prediction, even in the face of AI. This is how.

Notes on Commoncog’s 2025 repositioning, and taking a month off.

A simple, universal rule for AI use, built on top of some smart philosophy, designed to be used as guiding policy for your business.

If you want to get rich, the irony is that small markets are often better than large ones.

Learning the right lessons from my old boss, in the wake of a successful acquisition.

How all good entrepreneurs run experiments at the earliest stages of a business, and how you can use this approach for your own career.

How to resist thinking of large language models as friends. Or sentient things. Or intelligences you have to treat like God.

Why are the Tatas so much less corrupt than their contemporaries? How is their conglomerate still intact after five generations? The answer to an Asian conglomerate mystery, and Part 13 of the Asian conglomerate series.