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Obviously Kubernetes doesn't replace the actual OS (i.e. linux) but it provides OS like services at the cloud level...

To understand Kubernetes we have to go back to the basics and start from scratch.

Cloudflare Platform Week SSI Blog Post Digest Cloudflare Platform Week Of all the companies I cover, I think Cloudflare (NET) has the most impressive product delivery cadence.

Snowflake Summit 2022 Coverage SSI Blog Post Digest Snowflake Summit 2022 After their CEO promised "our most significant product announcements in four years", Snowflake held their annual Summit user conference last week.

An in-depth look at John Boyd and the OODA loop, the strategic thinker most concerned about fast adaptation under uncertainty.

The final chapter of Ray Dalio's Life Principles — which has to do with better decision-making.

Follow-up to Spotify, Netflix, and Aggregation, and why brand advertising makes sense for Netflix.

The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success. It isn't.

What tacit knowledge is, and why it is the most interesting topic in the study of expertise today.

An interview with Brex co-founder and co-CEO Pedro Franceschi about what makes Brex unique, why it is pushing into software, and what drove its decision to cut off a big portion of its customer bas…

We take a look at how you might turn extracted, tacit expertise into a training program for yourself or others.

A look at Laura Militello and Robert Hutton's Applied Cognitive Task Analysis, a simplified method for getting at the tacit expertise of others.

YouTube is the biggest thing to have happened to tacit skill acquisition in the past couple of decades. Here's how to use it.

There are three types of tacit knowledge, all of which 'cannot be captured through words alone'.

Much of expertise is tacit: that is, it cannot be captured through words alone. We look at techniques, drawn from the field of Naturalistic Decision Making, designed to acquire the tacit knowledge of experts.

Any discussion of practicing mental models must begin with a discussion of rationality. We look at what the research tells us about it.

Last week we covered a model for expertise called recognition-primed decision making. This week, we talk about how to use that model to build expertise of your own.

There are — loosely speaking — two kinds of advancement games you can play in your career. This is a parable about both.

Some careers can be made on the back of a single, wonderful idea. We take a look at what that looks like, through Bill Gurley's VC career.

Your two biggest barriers to achieving your goals: lying to yourself and blind-spots. The cure? Being 'radically open-minded'.

A how-to manual for being effective by Ray Dalio, founder of the most successful hedge fund in the world.

Experts make decisions in ways that are very, very different from conventional decision science models. This makes expertise a lot more important to good decision making than you might think.

Instrumental rationality is the sort of thinking that allows you to achieve your goals. We take a closer look at what decision science says is the 'best' way to pursue this purpose.

Accelerated Expertise is the best book we have on creating accelerated training programs today.

Have you ever tried putting deliberate practice to practice? If you have, it's likely that you'll have noticed just how difficult it is to apply deliberate practice principles to your career. Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying; here's why.

Here we try to answer a deceptively simple question: when someone offers advice, how do you evaluate that advice before putting it into practice?

Technique summary of Ray Dalio's Believability.

A summary of the conclusions from my Putting Mental Models to Practice series. What are mental models? How did mental models become so popular?

FIRE — 'financial independence, retire early' is a movement that's taking off amongst millennial knowledge workers. We explore how this relates to career strategy.

Books that bring out the secrets hidden in other books—an investigation into René Girard