THE VIDEO SHELF · OODA loop and John Boyd
OODA Loop & Evolutionary Epistemology of John Boyd by Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney, a long-time associate of John Boyd, presents Boyd's thinking on the OODA loop and evolutionary epistemology. The talk runs about two and a half hours and includes Q&A.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN readers recommend it as the way to learn what Boyd actually meant by OODA, straight from a collaborator, rather than from the popularized loop diagram.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- 52 Living Ideas
- Topic
- OODA loop and John Boyd
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I'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) - [LINK] Chuck Spinney (as it relates to epistemology) - [VIDEO] Both …
jmcalvay on Hacker News · 2021-03
In The OODA Loop: How Fighter Pilots Make Fast and Accurate DecisionsSee here the original presentation on OODA Loop that has been given at Quantico Marine base dozens of times by John Boyd's associate of 20 years Chuck Spinney. It shows the thinking method behind the OODA Loop--Evolutionary Epistemology: [VIDEO]
jasonra on Hacker News · 2021-03
In The OODA Loop: How Fighter Pilots Make Fast and Accurate DecisionsI also found this presentation/discussion with Chuck Spinney, one of Boyd's collaborators, to be a helpful elaboration of the concept - [VIDEO] (the meetup also has a couple of other similar videos with Chuck Spinney and Chet Richards, another of Boyd's collaborators who focused on …
jmcalvay on Hacker News · 2021-11
In Thinking in OODA Loops [slides]
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