Unlikely (?) Intersections
Saturday, July 21st, 2018[by J. Scott Shipman]
“To flourish and grow in a many-sided uncertain and ever changing world that surrounds us, suggests that we have to make intuitive within ourselves those many practices we need to meet the exigencies of that world.” John R. Boyd, Colonel, USAF, Ret (1937-1997), Introduction to Conceptual Spiral Abstract
Friends, I’ve been noodling the intersection of ideas for the last couple of years. Based on the classic Boyd quote above (and other works), I’d offer that:
(1) most of our problems (let’s stick to military) can be derived from a lack of tacit knowledge
(2) a lack of respect/perspective for the differences between tactical and strategic uncertainty.
I’m not suggesting any sort of novel discovery, as I’m standing on the shoulders of several other authors/thinkers, but Boyd’s little introduction manages to provide a scaffold of thought we’d be wise study.
