commoncog.comadded August 2026
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin2d ago
This week we’re publishing a case titled How Four Seasons Learnt to Handle Recessions. I believe this case is useful in the context of our previous essay How to Handle Disruptive Change — with the...
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin25 Aug 2026
Two weeks ago John Schmitt ran a Tactical Decision Game (TDG) for Commoncog members. A TDG is an accelerated expertise training method Schmitt developed for the US Marine Corps more than 30 years...
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin11 Aug 2026
Commoncog will be increasing membership prices from $250 a year to $360 a year on the 1st of September, which is next month. This rounds to $30 a month.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin27 Jul 2026
Sometime back I said that Commoncog will, as a service to members and readers, begin publishing cases of people and businesses who have had to go through disruption.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin27 Jul 2026
Aug 13 2026 9am-12pm CDT / 10pm-12am SGT. A live tactical decision game with the creator of Tactical Decision Games, John Schmitt.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin20 Jul 2026
Building a moat is the difference between having fun with business, vs eating glass all day, every day, for years. This is how moats are actually built.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin3 Jul 2026
A couple of months ago, I published How Experts Sensemake, which explains the best theory of sensemaking we currently have.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin29 Jun 2026
Some of you will already know that over the past six weeks or so, we’ve had five workshops from Roger Williams, teaching us Eliyahu Goldratt’s Thinking Tools.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin25 Jun 2026
This was the text of the Commoncog newsletter, sent 25th June 2026. This week’s Commoncog case is ... well free, though you might not want to read it.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin12 Jun 2026
A few weeks ago I wrapped up a short series on sensemaking. The explicit goal of that series was to give you better methods to make sense of a potentially disruptive new technology — which at the...
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin3 Jun 2026
This was the text of the Commoncog newsletter, sent June 3rd, 2026. I’m currently travelling and recovering from the flu, so I don’t have the capacity for a full update this week.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin22 May 2026
Jun 1 2026 8-9pm PT / Jun 2 11am-12pm SGT. Jay Taylor and Navan Chauhan will give a presentation of a real software dark factory for members.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin20 May 2026
I’ve had four conversations in the past year where someone said to me, “I have young kids / I have an existing life I’m happy with / I have existing obligations that I enjoy.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin11 May 2026
May 23, 30, Jun 6, 13, 20 2026 8am-9am EDT / 8pm-9pm SGT. Roger Williams teaches how he uses Eliyahu Goldratt’s Thinking Tools.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin3 May 2026
Note: This is Part 3 of a short series on sensemaking. You may read Part 2 here. In Part 1 we discussed one way to make sense of AI without losing your head.
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin7 Apr 2026
This is Part 2 of a short series on sensemaking. You may read Part 1 here. In the previous instalment we talked about one way to make sense of AI (without losing your head).
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