Commoncog

How Moats are Built

Using the Quartz Crisis to Make Sense of Technological Disruption

A Retrospective on Goldratt’s Thinking Tools

Did Quartz Really Kill the Swiss Watch Industry in the 70s?

Cate Hall Q&A on Agency

Sensemaking as the Heart of Expertise

Reflections on the Software Dark Factory Q&A

Software Dark Factory Q&A

There are Many Configurations of Business That Work

Live Goldratt Thinking Tools Workshop with Roger Williams

How to Improve at Sensemaking AI?

How Experts Sensemake

Actually Effective Corporate Leadership Training

How to Make Sense of AI

All the Demand Ideas from The Heart of Innovation, Simply Stated

Our First Accelerated Expertise Course

A Few Notes on Moats

“This One Can Make Money Or Not?”

Tycoon Skill: Holding on to Political Influence

What We Learnt From Speedrunning the Idea Maze

Announcing Cohort Two of Speedrunning the Idea Maze

David Bessis Q&A on Mathematics & Intuition

‘The Ultimate Business-Cycle Bottom Fisher’

Stop Worrying About Survivorship Bias With This One Weird Trick

The Creation of a Skilled Tycoon

The Shape of The Game We Play

What is a Tech Bubble?

The Only Thing That Matters

Letter to a Young Person Worrying About AI

Completing Commoncog’s Repositioning (and Going On Paternity Leave)

How to Use AI Without Becoming Stupid

The Joy of Small Markets

Chaos and Coherence in Business

How to Run Smart Experiments When You Just Don’t Know

A Vaccine for Anthropomorphism of AI

The Tatas: When Virtue Works

Announcing Speedrunning the Idea Maze

Putting the Jobs to be Done Interview to Practice

Tycoon Succession

The Art of the Asian Joint Venture

You’re Always Selling to a Situation, Not an ICP

The Origin of the Tatas

Cases from The Heart of Innovation

The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail