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Adult Learning vs. Child Learning
A major category of posts here will be on the topic of Adult Learning. This topic will underlie most others. There are different thoughts on this distinction. I want to start off being clear on the...
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What is Tactical Cognition? – A Brief
“Thinking that interacts with another person, whether in competition or cooperation, is tactical.” Tactic is interactive. It expects feedback loops and a sense of “mirror looking at mirror”, realizing...
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Tactical Timing
Part of reducing the cost, effort or load of an action is developing a sense of timing. Aside from literal experience in a specific field, timing practice is all around us, from sliding through a door...
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Adult Learning
Mature adult cognition is contextualized, with one foot in the abstract/conceptual and the other firmly in the concrete limitations of daily life. It is not handicapped by the signature adolescent...
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Naturalistic Decision Making
The unorthodox question is: “What do expert decision makers do naturally?” Naturalistic approaches to psychological phenomena1,2 work to model decision making and situation awareness in real-world, as...
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Situation Awareness
Real human function is most notable for its high adaptability, flexibility and complexity. At our best, we naturally sift through what would be TeraBytes of data in moments, acting on the very few bits...
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Who is John Boyd?
…and why is he talking about my work??? My son is Air Force, so I had heard of the OODA loop several times and thought it boring—too simple! I ran into this book at a used book store. A quick glance...
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It Can Only Enrich Both
It can only enrich both efforts to find that two separate lines of inquiry have reached the same conclusions. This remains my impression after reading Coram’s book (2002) and starting on Richards’...
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Twin Sons of Different Mothers – part 1
What is so similar, coming from such different backgrounds? I will first briefly describe the parallels in our work, then highlight the importance of this resemblance. DFCS: Cognitive Load in a System...
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Putin Does What Boyd Told Us To Do – 1
1 + 1 = 2. ’nuff said.Filed under: John Boyd Discussion Tagged: implicit bonds, implicit communication, implicit orientation, John Boyd, Putin, shared mental models
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’bout Time!
In December, I committed to releasing the first core of my LinSao work, with a submission to a prominent research journal. And the second article is starting to come together. It’s overdue, but I...
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Adult Learning vs. Child Learning
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