Boydian Maxims
Things we want according to either Chet Richards or Col. Osinga:
- Centralized vision, decentralized decision making
- Optimized for local uncertainty
- Implicit communication
- Emphasize implicit over explicit
- War is a conflict between two learning systems
- OODA loops are for screwing the other side
- Blindside and finish before he knows what happened
Osinga On Boydian Influences
Colonel Osinga says Colonel John Boyd was influenced by the following books:
- Tao of Physics
- Ascent of Man
- Physics of Philosophy
- Godel’s Proof
- Objective Knowledge
- Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Human Prospect
- The Selfish Gene
- Fifth Discipline
- Arrow of Time
- Chaos
- General System Theory
- Book of Five Rings
BoydCon07 Overview
Whereas Mark has an excellent brief detailing the explicit knowledge transfer, I spent most of my time focusing on the implicit, but I did manage to jot down a few notes, presented here in chronological order (I think).
New post for each section to make it a little more readable.
On Fast Flux Service Networks
Interesting paper up over at Honeynet.
FFS Networks rely on a small core group of black motherships behind a layer of hijacked-home-front end systems that are constantly rapidly swapping out IP addresses to deliver illicit content.
This is an evolution from having to hijack and host their content on multiple servers – a conflict that is now revolving around ever shortening response times.
In the FFS model, the content remains in one location and users are simply redirected to it via constantly shifting routes.
Winer On Social Networking Apps
I think he has the right take on it (and the idea that Facebook’s valuation depends on what it does next):
We’re all tired of building networks of friends, over and over. Next time we do it, it’ll be for keeps. It’ll be the “real” social network, the one all future social networks build on, just as the format and protocol designed by TBL was the one we all built on for basic machine-level networking.