17-01-27 Synthesizing Information from Worldview Building

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A lot of these are more a function of courage than a function of coming up with the ideas. It may be more valuable to come up with ways to boost my courage long enough for me to expose these ideas to people than to come up with the ideas themselves. Or have a low level plan on each abstract solution to execute on tomorrow.

1. Contact the relevant professor
   1. Message Rosen about Boyd
2. Talk with friends about it
   1. Chris for social / strategy, find a technical friend
3. Find an online forum that discusses the content
   1. Email the CFAR list looking for people to talk through the ideas with
   2. Venkatesh Rao
   3. That Brexit director
4. Run Experiments based on the ideas
   1. Frame things in terms of OODA, run idea lists on how to orient more effectively, how to decide more quickly, how to act on what I decide
5. Improve the model myself
   1. If OODA is true for a situation, figuring out how to merge the gaps - how to orient on what is observed, how to decide based on that orientation, how to act on each decision - is HUGE. Each is a book in itself. And there’s tons of content out there on each topic that could be synthesized. How to update. How to make decisions. How to execute.
6. Synthesize
   1. Take the whole book and write down every new idea that shows up. Whenever an idea is repeated, add a tally. See how high the counts get, and then take the major (top 10-20) ideas and think about how they interact or turn them into a shortlist for running the book as a model. Could go down to 3 ideas, even.
7. Map the space of Connected Thinkers
   1. Create a bibliography, taking the ideas that are cited (for Boyd, Clauswitz, Sun Tzu, Jomini, the german generals) and creating summaries of the parts of those content that are used.
8. Concept Map
   1. There are interacting ideas throughout each text that I read. Knowing which are conditionals, where there are interactions, etc. can be mapped out through a graph.
9. Anki
   1. Take the major concepts and use spaced repetition, in a way that trains the skill I want to learn.
10. Modeling
11. Apply a synthesized version of the text to real world systems and problems, generating strategies or at least an understanding of the system that differs from the default model (easy way to generate contrarianism).

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