

The Episode Where We Launch the Podcast as a Controlled Hallucination | Ep 1
13 snips Jan 4, 2023
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Boyd's Ideas Apply Everywhere
- John Boyd's theories help individuals and teams improve their capacity for free and independent action across fields.
- Mark McGrath emphasizes these ideas apply whenever humans make decisions in VUCA environments.
Market Chaos Felt Like Combat
- Mark recounts comparing market chaos during the financial crisis to combat devastation and trauma.
- He used that experience to see military training principles as transferable to finance and other domains.
No Way Out: Accept The Features
- The phrase 'No Way Out' summarizes immutable world features like uncertainty, ambiguity, and entropy.
- Ponch and Mark argue accepting these forces forces a continuous orientation to reality instead of trying to eliminate them.