Commonplace Expertise

Jan 13 2025 8 ep. 72 mins 31

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The Commonplace Expertise Podcast is about the expertise that exists in the heads of the most interesting people around us. We interview guests with the goal of helping you make better business and career decisions in your life.

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Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota on Human-AI Symbiosis

Jan 13 2025 80 mins

Dr. Lia DiBello is the Chief Science Officer of ACSILabs, Inc, which makes the FutureView Platform — a virtual reality training platform used by the US military and by certain large businesses to accelerate expertise. I last talked to Lia about her groundbreaking work explicating the mental model of business expertise, and in fact created this podcast to interview her. She’s ba

Stan Slap on the Art of Building Effective Employee Cultures

Nov 20 2024 87 mins

Stan Slap is the founder and president of SLAP, an international consulting firm that helps organisations get maximum commitment from their manager, employee, and customer cultures. SLAP has worked with the who's-who of the Fortune 500, companies that you've heard of like Costco, Oracle, HP, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Amazon, General Electric, Intel, Viacom, Tesla, Glassdoor, Warner M

Colin Bryar on the Practice of Amazon's Weekly Business Review

Nov 15 2023 71 mins

Colin Bryar joined Amazon really early in its life and spent twelve years as part of Amazon's senior leadership team.For two of those years he was 'Technical Assistant' to Jeff Bezos, as known as 'Jeff's shadow', during which he spent each day attending meetings, traveling with, and discussing business and life with Jeff. After Amazon, he and his family relocated to Singapore for t

Eric Nehrlich on the Art of Executive Coaching and Forecasting

Jul 25 2023 87 mins

Eric Nehrlich is an executive coach, and was formerly the chief of staff on the Google Search Ads team. Before becoming chief of staff, Eric was part of the team that got Google's revenue forecasting down from an error rate of 10-20% to an error rate of around 0.5%. We open up with some wild stories of Google's early attempts at revenue forecasting, and then dig into how that forec

Lesley Sim on Skill Acceleration in Ultimate

May 15 2023 88 mins

Lesley Sim coached the Singaporean Ultimate Women's World Championship team in 2020. We open with an introduction to the sport of Ultimate (sometimes known as frisbee), her experience coaching the women's team in late 2019, and then move on to her remarkable approach to pedagogical development and skill acceleration in the game of Ultimate.Along the way, we talk about desirable and

David MacIver on Life Skills for Programmers

Sep 06 2021 77 mins

Cedric Chin talks to David MacIver, who pushed the boundaries of property testing, and now helps programmers with soft skills, self improvement, and emotional debugging.

Lia DiBello on The Mental Model of Business

Aug 23 2021 88 mins

Cedric Chin talks to Lia DiBello, who discovered that all great businesspeople share a common mental model of business.

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