Jan 29 2026 2pm-3pm CET / 9pm-10pm SGT. David Bessis joins Commoncog members to talk about building intuition, training expertise, and the true nature of mathematics.

How Kwek Leng Beng turned a regional business into a global hotel empire, trampling over a distressed Donald Trump in the process. Part of the Asian Conglomerate Series.

Why successful investors and businesspeople tell you to learn from business history — and what they do so survivorship bias isn’t a problem.

What it looks like when an Asian tycoon gets good at the game of business.

The weird thing about learning business is that some things must be learnt through practice, but some things are best learnt through reading.

What Data General and the minicomputer boom can tell us about our present moment.

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.