# It Matters How a Mariner Learns Navigation **URL:** \ **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\ **Created:** [November 15, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/it-matters-how-a-mariner-learns-navigation/57470 "2020-11-15T13:47:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 60
**Author:** ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/it-matters-how-a-mariner-learns-navigation/57470/60 "2020-11-22T12:58:16Z")
What about this thread? > [@Connections From Hammond's "The Mind of War" - Col John Boyd](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/connections-from-hammonds-the-mind-of-war-col-john-boyd/57412): > > 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”](https://www.amazon.com/WARFIGHTING-Marine-Corps-Doctrinal-Publication/dp/1557423091?tag=gcaptaincom-20) follows Boyd very closely. Books are sort of like nodes in network, some are more or less dead ends while other have many connections like the trunk of a tree branching out. This book branches off in many directions. I ran into an article the other day about the computer language LISP (“List Processing Language”) and th… @Lee_Shore - I think I missed your point. You’re saying be careful is no more helpful then “look out the window”? Or the other way round actually. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/it-matters-how-a-mariner-learns-navigation/57470)._