Cedric Chin
Writes https://t.co/jDXGXZVHqH. Tweets about books & the art of business, from the perspective of an operator. https://t.co/8gO6sUlhUM
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I wonder if people have picked up on the fact that the Amazon-style Weekly Business Review builds in lots of smart social incentive design. A data practice isnāt just about dashbo...
I donāt typically talk about ecosystem change, but itās something I discuss with friends on and off. You canāt help it, if you donāt live in the centre of tech. Like say you live...
I wrote a months-long series of posts on becoming data driven in business. At first, the ideas were from Amazon (and W. Edwards Deming). But then I started putting them to practic...
Something that I've been thinking about, which I got from @visakanv: people who do things are able to point out tradeoffs you will encounter when you attempt to put things to pract...
Friend told me a ātech person rolling eyes at finance personā story recently. Businessperson takes over failing startup, engineers disapprove; at one point in a meeting he gets fr...
I think one of the more surprising things that Iāve learnt is that expertise in business has a component that is basically āCapitalā, and that most operators ā myself included ā ar...
I think one of the most impactful pieces of advice I received last year was @DRMacIver's "Cedric, you can't solve procrastination any more than you can solve cooking. Procrastinati...
Thereās this Picasso quote that goes āWhen art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy chea...
I wonder how much of āinvestors asking questions of early stage startupsā are really āinvestors evaluating the founderās ability to face the truth when pokedā ā¦ because thatās wha...
About two years ago I wrote a series of essays on Lia DiBello's research into business expertise. Her work has been hugely influential to me ā it's changed the way I view business...
This weekās Commoncog essay is a deep dive into the cursed question: āwhat do you do in business when you canāt predict the outcomes of your actions?ā But letās set this up ā¦
One of the things that I have struggle expressing that can be viscerally felt is the idea that certain frameworks reduce reality in useful, good ways, while others do not. Learnin...