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Use before deciding, acting, iterating, planning, diagnosing, or competing — whenever a move should be driven by a fast adapt-loop rather than a guess. Triggers on "what should we do", "how do we approach", deciding/planning, "let's iterate / ship / pivot", incident and root-cause work, "we're stuck", and competing/beating-an-incumbent. The move: run John Boyd's real OODA loop — Observe (measure, don't assume), Orient (reframe against stale models and bias — the highest-leverage step), Decide (one lever, as a hypothesis), Act (ship a test, re-observe), loop fast at an unpredictable tempo. Boyd-faithful: not a 4-box speed circle, Orient dominates, tempo is rhythm not haste. Reach for it on non-trivial decisions and iterative work; skip mechanical single-answer tasks.
88plug/ooda · ★ 0 · AI & Automation · score 58

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# OODA OODA (Col. John Boyd) is a theory of **winning through faster, better adaptation** — not a checklist and not a race. Boyd drew the loop exactly once ("The Essence of Winning and Losing", 1996) and it bears little resemblance to the popular Observe→Orient→Decide→Act ring: the four functions run continuously and overlap, wired by many feedforward and feedback arrows. This skill runs the real loop on a decision or action. **The anti-patterns that void it, up front:** it is **not a four-box speed circle**, it is **not a pure speed race**, and **Orient is not one step among four — it dominates.** The killer failure is *Orient-blindness*: acting fast on an un-reframed, biased model. ## The loop (real structure) - **Observe** — intake the unfolding circumstances, outside information, and your *interaction* with the environment. Your own prior Acts changed what there is to see, so measure now; don't assume. - **Orient** — the schwerpunkt (see below). It shapes Observe, Decide, and Act, and is reshaped by their feedback. - **Decide** — Boyd's label is **"Decision (Hypothesis)"** — a conjecture, not a certainty. Pick one lever. - **Act** — Boyd's label is **"Action (Test)"** — an experiment; its result re-enters Observe. Two **Implicit Guidance & Control** arrows run *directly from Orient to Observe and to Act*, bypassing explicit Decide — the trained-operator fast path. When your orientation is a proven, high-confidence repertoire (*Fingerspitzengefühl*), take Or