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.

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.

A simple, universal rule for AI use, built on top of some smart philosophy, designed to be used as guiding policy for your business.

If you want to get rich, the irony is that small markets are often better than large ones.

Learning the right lessons from my old boss, in the wake of a successful acquisition.

How all good entrepreneurs run experiments at the earliest stages of a business, and how you can use this approach for your own career.

How to resist thinking of large language models as friends. Or sentient things. Or intelligences you have to treat like God.

Why are the Tatas so much less corrupt than their contemporaries? How is their conglomerate still intact after five generations? The answer to an Asian conglomerate mystery, and Part 13 of the Asian...

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Things we wished someone told us, before we put the JTBD interview to practice.

Most Asian conglomerates are family-controlled businesses. Succession in any family business is a tricky thing. We look at a few cases as part of the Asian Conglomerate Series.