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OODA Loop & Evolutionary Epistemology of John Boyd by Chuck Spinney

52 Living Ideas · 5.5K views · 2021-02-21 · 2:32:25

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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.

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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.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2021–2025

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aspenmayer · 2025-06 · Recommendation

An interesting video from another time this came up on HN: [VIDEO] > OODA Loop & Evolutionary Epistemology of John Boyd by Chuck Spinney From this comment: [LINK] They also mention a video by Chet Richards and how it relates OODA to business context. [LINK] The Q&A with both Chet Richards and Chuck Spinney is also worth a look: [LINK]

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jmcalvay · 2021-11 · Recommendation

I 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 applying Boyd's ideas to business)

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jmcalvay · 2021-03 · Recommendation

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 - [LINK] (they're from this meetup: [LINK] )

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