Commonplace Expertise

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 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 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

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.

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

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