Taylor Pearson hosts the Mutiny Investing podcast and wrote a 70-page guide to help newcomers understand Boyd’s OODA loop. Mark “Moose” McGrath and I asked him how to apply Boyd in turbulent markets.
Finding Boyd
Taylor traces the path from Austin’s tech scene and the Global Financial Crisis to Boyd’s work. That path led him to write the guide.
From systems to complexity
We discuss Dave Snowden’s work and the shift from systems thinking to complexity thinking. That shift changes how people manage and how they invest. Taylor argues for biological management thinking.
Legibility and morality
We look at legibility and the story of the German forest service from James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State. Taylor also covers how complexity and morality meet in entrepreneurship. Gareth Morgan’s eight images of organization come up too.
This episode is not investment advice.
Complexity science and the OODA loop both put orientation at the center when markets turn.
Which of your plans depends on the world staying more legible than it is?
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