This is one of my favorite books. Focus on operations not business or finance. A useful read for management level mariners. The USMC manual MCD1 - “Warfighting” follows Boyd very closely. [image] Books are sort of like nodes in network, some are more or less dead ends while other have many co…

Two very different paths arriving at the same place. John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist . McCarthy was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence . [1] He co-authored the document that coined the term “ a…

Connections From Hammond's "The Mind of War" - Col John Boyd: This is one of my favorite books. Focus on operations not business or finance. A useful read for management level mariners. The USMC manual MCD1 - “Warfighting” follows Boyd very closely. Operational level strictly focus on operat…

On the another thread there is a discussion about the usefulness of touch screens. I wonder why the third mate can’t see what I see from the bridge of a ship. Both these questions are with regards to how people perceive and respond to their environment. The OODA loop is well known and simple (KIS…

There was a discussion on this thread as to these three terms. [image] “The Captains of Thor — What Really Caused the Loss of the SS El Faro” by Robert Frump Professional Mariner Forum Yes, I thought the same thing. Pressure in general but also the way Frump tells Davids…

Before examining the sources of information, and how to improve each of them, one must first devise a model of how human decisions are made. U.S. Air Force Colonel John Boyd devised a prescient model he called the “OODA Loop” (USMC, 1992). The principle was that a person Observes a situation, then …

Above the OODA loop is called "a model’. According to George Box - All models are wrong, some are useful. The term “mental model” is static, Perrow’s “Expected World” accounts for the entanglement of the Observe and Orient that the OODA loop disregards or simplifies. Here the feedback between ob…

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