{"id":2878,"date":"2008-09-23T03:49:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2008-09-23T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:21:11","slug":"early-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2878","title":{"rendered":"Early Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong><em><a 1934840467?ie=\"UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1934840467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zenpundit-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1934840467\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1934840467?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1934840467\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\">The John Boyd Roundtable<\/a><\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shloky.com\/?p=1100\">Shlok Vaidya<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>It has the uniqueness of both being able to touch off debate, but still offer a framework with which to talk about the future of warfare (or more appropriately, decision making) &#8211; in other words, it demonstrates exactly how to approach Boyd.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/haftofthespear.com\/2008\/09\/the-transition-continues\/\">Michael Tanji<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The point, made in a side-discussion between myself and the editor, is that this is yet another way in which TT 2.0 works, and perhaps is an indication that the transition to a 2.0 model is well underway:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Virtual discussion (Time? Distance? Ha!) <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Serious discussants (So much for online not being \u2018legit&#8217; or \u2018real&#8217;) <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Digital delivery (for the digerati) <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dead-tree format (for those who like it like that) <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tanji is correct. One objective here was to bridge the gap between symposium, blog and book. One set of ideas, many modalities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selil.com\/?p=410\">Sam Liles<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>As a book about a book it should also be noted that this not much different than the literary critique found in most academic journals. The bonus is that it isn&#8217;t nearly as dry. The article penned by Chet Richards discussing &#8220;The origins of John Boyd&#8217;s <em>A discourse on winning and loosing<\/em>&#8221; is the kind of in depth research that is hard to find. I am fascinated by his discussion of how the specific philosophies were brought into alignment and filled in the gaps of Boyd&#8217;s theories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have always been interested in how like some Greek philosopher John Boyd effectively portrayed his ideas and communicated them so diligently and never wrote a book. This is antithetical to today&#8217;s world where you write the book then get to convey your ideas if the book sells well.\u00a0 Lexington Green in &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t Boyd write a book?&#8221; discusses the interactive nearing on Socratic method Boyd used with audiences. The points conveyed provide a true insight into what may be the instantiation of John Boyd&#8217;s true genius. The reason Boyd likely didn&#8217;t write a book may be so that people could continue to discuss and adapt his ideas into the future. A\u00a0 point Lexington Green discusses and points out eloquently.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lex&#8217;s essay is one of my favorite parts of the book too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTRIBUTOR&#8217;S POSTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tdaxp.com\/archive\/2008\/09\/22\/debating-science-strategy-and-war.html\">TDAXP<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0and <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tdaxp.com\/archive\/2008\/09\/23\/boyd-and-the-quantitative-revolution.html\">TDAXP II<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hgworld.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/shameless-attempt-at-self-promotion.html\">HG&#8217;s World<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.d-n-i.net\/dni\/2008\/09\/22\/the-john-boyd-roundtable\/\"> DNI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On The John Boyd Roundtable: Shlok Vaidya: It has the uniqueness of both being able to touch off debate, but still offer a framework with which to talk about the future of warfare (or more appropriately, decision making) &#8211; in other words, it demonstrates exactly how to approach Boyd. Michael Tanji: The point, made in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,105,552,514,281,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-haft-of-the-spear","category-john-boyd-roundtable","category-shlok","category-shloky","category-tanji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}