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Competition gets hotter as information flows faster. As the OODA loop goes faster you can't plan, you can only react. We're afraid to slow down because if you do you'll lose. A global red queen race. No one can stop it,...
The OODA loop of software development is now hour-to-hour. Before, it was week-to-week.
... so you could take the time to think multi-ply. Now it's entirely down to whose OODA loop runs faster. The executive branch's OODA loop runs orders and orders of magnitude faster than the judiciary branch's. That didn't used to matter that...
...l the time. Everyone is trying to get an edge tactically on everyone. Run their OODA loop just a bit faster. A red queen race situation that we all lose.
An ad hoc change management process can break a team's OODA loop. An intentional change management process helps make sure that the team keeps laminar flow and doesn't get into turbulent flow. When a team is in tur...
...is bits not atoms, and so it goes faster than other types of organizations. Its OODA loop is the fastest. Not because tech is better, because tech is easier. That makes it the vanguard of these kinds of issue. It has more acute versions of...
Bruce Schneier's Agentic AI's OODA loop problem is worth a read.
There's the personal OODA loop and the situations' OODA loop. The personal OODA loop is the classic Douglas Adams quote: "1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is norma...
People use AI inside their OODA loop. "Take this process I already do and go through the steps faster." But what about using it outside their OODA loop? An end run around their process. ...
Making decisions is what keeps you "in the loop". In the OODA loop, it's the Decision that is the core of the loop. Without it, you're just observing, or being buffeted around by forces around you. Everything good, e...
...is distillation can allow different perspectives. The distillation is where the OODA loop emerges. The OODA loop is where interaction between different things emerges. Emergence happens because of the distillation to communicate.
... dynamic, because each individual sub component has interdependent actions. The OODA loop is where emergence comes from.
...ed in a paper called The Unbearable Slowness of Being. This is as fast as human OODA loops can go. This loop is likely faster than any other animal. Our whole constructed environment is designed around that 10 bits per second limit we all ...
...ct Managers As information transmittance gets faster, everyone has to run their OODA loop faster to create an edge over competitors and stay alive. That means everyone is driven to increasingly short-sighted decisions, at an accelerating r...
You don't need a theory of mind for something that your OODA loop is orders of magnitude faster than. Startups' OODA loop is orders of magnitude faster than big companies', purely based on how many people have to co...
...to just make the change and seeing how users react. It significantly slows your OODA loop. Decentralization enables ubiquity (everyone is willing to participate since no one actor could control or extract), but it also saps adaptability wh...
... to be at least as complex as your competitor otherwise you're outside of their OODA loop. The competitor with the fastest OODA loop will win, all else equal. So evolution in an ecosystem goes at a compounding rate. As predation happens it...
It's more important for an OODA loop to be grounded in reality than to be fast. A fast OODA loop is good, but what matters most is that it touches ground truth on every cycle. If it does...
It's very easy to create an accidentally delusional OODA loop. Is it momentum in a vacuum (just makes sense for you and the team, possibly only coherent to the kayfabe), or is it momentum in the ground truth rea...
... and intuitively, will have a massive advantage. Effectively a massively faster OODA loop. Your gut instinct can be honed and made significantly better through practice. Develop the muscle of predicting and then being surprised, and using ...