OODA Loops
[[Musashi]]
Gradient descent. Ooda loops. Small steps on theon the Right direction. Being like water. Flowing down.
Time as a weapon Attacking the mind Putting the opponents on tilt
Basis of Maneuver warfare
Orientation is the most important part, but Start with action.
Diagrams:
- ![[ooda1.png]]
- ![[ooda2.png]]
- ![[ooda3.png]]
- ![[ben_ford_course.png]]
Relation to Austrian Economics:
- ![[The Laws of Agile Meet Austrian Economics.pdf]]
- ![[The Agile Value Revolution.pdf]] References:
- https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2021/12/06/thinking-in-ooda-loops/
- https://taylorpearson.me/ooda-loop/
- https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-ooda-loop-ancient-china-style.html
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Act according to actual circumstances
It is easy to give in to established patterns of thought. While it is often wasteful1, an accurate assessment to...
Complexity
Complicated and complex are often used interchangeably but they mean different things. A mechanical watch is complicated, an ecosystem is...
Fire bullets, then cannonballs
This is a pithy expression used by Jim Collins which seems to me to be a colorful way of describing...
Increase your tempo
All conflict philosophies in line with [[OODA Loops]] emphasize the use of speed. [[Sun Tzu]] claims that speed is the...
The five elements of an organization that can exploit OODA loops
[[John Boyd]] says that an organization that can cycle through [[OODA Loops]] fast and maintain high tempo ([[Increase your tempo]])...
The use of AI can be strategic
[[Decisions matter]]. Indeed, it is perhaps the only thing that does. Everything that you do can be framed as a...
There is a robustness-efficiency tradeoff
Systems must trade-off between being robust and being efficient. Understanding this is important to deal with inherently complex ([[Complexity]]) systems....