This week's Commonplace post is about how I come up with new topics to write about ... and how you can steal that process for investigating career/life questions you want answered.
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How I come up with things to write about:
1. I have questions.
2. I investigate those questions.
3. I write up the answers.
(I also don't use a second brain, because I'm an idiot that way).
I ... suspect that I have 2-3 good years before I run out of questions!
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I think one question I get often is “how do you find books to construct reading programs around”, but the answer is really simple — you let your questions guide you.
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Some questions I’m currently investigating:
- why are most big companies in Asia conglomerates?
- what’s the current best thinking on luck vs skill?
- how does Charlie Munger use analogical thinking, and why is it so effective?
- what does skill in wicked domains look like?
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I'm especially interested in your thoughts on Charlie Munger's analogical thinking. These nerds would be too: @StoryoftheC @rajlego
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On skill + wicked domains, me and interviewed . 1st question we asked was about the ideal training for knowledge workers. Andy gave some insight into the difficulties for evaluating skill in wicked domains.
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When the bar is cognitive task analysis, there aren't that many resources, nor many practitioners who have explicated their thinking processes. Lui's article is good because a) he was an equity analysis for 20 years, and b) he goes deep into his method.