Commonplace Expertise

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

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 back today to talk about her use of AI to accelerate expertise. Neil Sahota is the CEO of ACSILabs. Neil was part of the o...

Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 7

Stan Slap on the Art of Building Effective Employee Cultures

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 Music Group — and some companies that you haven't; all told, SLAP has worked with companies doing business in 44 coun...

Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 6

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

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 two years where Colin served as Chief Operating Officer of e-commerce company RedMart, which was subsequently sold t...

Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 5

Eric Nehrlich on the Art of Executive Coaching and Forecasting

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 forecasting success happened. Along the way, Eric explains how he, his boss, and his team developed a fingertip feel for ...

Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 4

Lesley Sim on Skill Acceleration in Ultimate

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 undesirable problems in training, playing to play vs playing to win, and how she used a training method originally...

May 15, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 3

David MacIver on Life Skills for Programmers

David MacIver is most known for pushing the adoption and ergonomics of property testing in software with his testing library Hypothesis. Hypothesis is well regarded and widely used in the Python programming language community, and it introduced a handful of innovations that are now quite widespread in the practice of property testing. You’ll hear more about Hypothesis during the podcast, as we talk about what he’s learnt pushing the boundaries of a domain. Then, we shift gears to talk about his ...

Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 2

Lia DiBello on The Mental Model of Business

Dr Lia DiBello is the CEO, President, and Director of Research of WTRI (Workplace Technology Research Inc), and Senior Scientist at Applied Cognitive Sciences Labs Inc. She is a cognitive scientist as well as a businessperson. In the late 2000s Dr DiBello discovered in an NSF-funded study that all great businesspeople share a common mental model of business, and that mental model can be used for all sorts of interesting things, including the assessment of business expertise, which she did — she ...

Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 1

What's This Podcast About?

A short trailer for Commonplace Expertise, the new podcast from Commonplace https://commoncog.com/blog/

Aug 14, 2021•45 sec•Ep. 1

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