Certain to Zen: OODA, IOHAI, Lean, and More with Chet Richards, PhD | Ep 16
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The Importance of Analogies
John Boyd got under those things very early. Second law thermodynamics, of course, some of his second bachelor's degree there at Georgia Tech and where he was also exposed since he was in industrial engineering. And so he got exposed to these ideas of the second law and I don't know if he probably didn't run across the incompleteness theorems or something like that. It's important to realize he wasn't using them as analogies. A lot of people misunderstand that analogies are great for getting ideas, but until they're tested, until they're restated back in the domain you're interested in and tested in that domain, there's still Ideas.
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