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Boyd's famous OODA loop (observe-orient-decide-act) is probably the most misunderstood and misused diagram of practical significance in decision making. It is t
by codeulike 6y ago
Boyd's famous OODA loop (observe-orient-decide-act) is probably the most misunderstood and misused diagram of practical significance in decision making. It is to decision-making what the five elements (earth/fire/water/wind/ether) model from alchemy is to modern chemistry. Or what Freud's id-ego-superego model is to neuroscience ... Though the terms and concepts of the OODA loop are intuitive and coherent at least at a first pass, there is fundamentally no way to use them entirely safely without making gross errors. Just as there is no way to do modern chemistry using alchemical concepts without making gross errors. Or trying to do neurosurgery based on an id-ego-superego map of the brain without making gross errors.
https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-use-and-misuse-of-the-ooda-loop https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-use-and-misuse-of-t...
- jmcalvay 6y agoI've been enjoying this video series with interviews of Boyd's surviving collaborators as a way to separate out what he meant from what folks often misunderstand: Chet Richards (as it relates to business) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hDhznBtN24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hDhznBtN24 Chuck Spinney (as it relates to epistemology) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdK4y6O-llE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdK4y6O-llE Both - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWfbPoDuEwg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWfbPoDuEwg (they're from this meetup: https://52livingideas.com/ https://52livingideas.com/)
- sooheon 6y agoGreat article, they've actually done the "analysis" and "synthesis" wrt the OODA loop, as opposed to Farnam Street's somewhat wide eyed adulation.