New user here (saw too much high praise from @tomcritchlow to ignore!) with a very ignorant question.
Excited to dig in, but asking myself where to begin.
There’s a lot of content on the main site¹ and there’s a “Start Here” section. However, I was wondering if you’ve got specific advice with respect to where you would start knowing what you know about all the content.
If not, I’ll probably just work through the archives in order from the Start Here section
The first series that I seriously set aside time to read is with The Chinese Businessman Paradox - Commoncog , but that’s just because I am in SE Asia setting and know the background quite well
I’m back after having been away from the blog since ~last August, and have two questions:
Now that the Capital Allocation and Becoming Data Driven series are fairly far along, is there a recommended order for reading through those series other than publication order?
It looks like the series pages are manually updated, so I’m not sure all relevant posts are listed there. Is there a simple index of posts with initial publication dates somewhere on the site? I’m trying to identify where I left off.
I recommend the Capital Allocation series, which is complete. That one I’m fairly certain you can read front to back and have everything make sense (and in fact certain pieces build on the ideas introduced in earlier pieces).
This series I’m a lot more uncomfortable about, mostly because it’s a bit of a mess. I plan to circle back and reorganise everything as a guide when the series is done (after the WBR pieces, which are the next two pieces that I’m working on). It’s a mess because putting the ideas to practice has forced me to reevaluate some of the earlier pieces. Some ideas are more important than first meets the eye, and others are less.
So … Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles synthesises most of the ideas — after which you can sample whatever you think is most interesting.
I’d recommend you go through the syllabus and pick things that interest you, though. Links to cases will be embedded throughout various essays, and you can then use that as a jumping off point to consume case sequences, according to concept.
The nice thing about both syllabus and concept sequences in the case library is that there is a suggestion of linearity (“read this, then this, then this”) but at the same time you can choose to jump around.
Our Q1 priority is also to convert everything to audio, so you can consume whilst on the go. But that will take a few weeks of experimentation. I’ll update here when that’s done.
