1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·10d ago
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.
What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well?
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·25d ago
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.
Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·25d ago
Aug 13 2026 9am-12pm CDT / 10pm-12am SGT. A live tactical decision game with the creator of Tactical Decision Games, John Schmitt.
How Moats are Built
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·20 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.
Using the Quartz Crisis to Make Sense of Technological Disruption
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·3 Jul 2026
A couple of months ago, I published How Experts Sensemake, which explains the best theory of sensemaking we currently have.
A Retrospective on Goldratt’s Thinking Tools
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·29 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.
Did Quartz Really Kill the Swiss Watch Industry in the 70s?
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·25 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.
Sensemaking as the Heart of Expertise
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·12 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...
Reflections on the Software Dark Factory Q&A
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·3 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.
Software Dark Factory Q&A
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·22 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.
There are Many Configurations of Business That Work
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·20 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.
Live Goldratt Thinking Tools Workshop with Roger Williams
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·11 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.
How to Improve at Sensemaking AI?
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·3 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.
How Experts Sensemake
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·7 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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