The type that lets us frame ourselves as more relevant to the world than we might be
…we are all equal part hero and victim of our own melodrama at most times
…intermitted with moments of clarity when we realise we just make everything up as we go along
And when we find ourselves at a cross road
This great tension comes to the forefront to play out in real time
“Sit, walk, run… but never wobble” -one of many iterations of the Zen Proverb
Mine this morning was around the critical path for this development in Queanbeyan
DA Mod, no DA mod
Unit layouts work but basement could be bigger
Carpark separate finance play or part of S-Block stage one
This or that
left or right
black or white
all so important… all so trivial in the grand scale of things
I always found the Zen proverb was descriptive but not prescriptive
yes, i found myself wobbling
but how does being in the moment help me make the right decision right now?
“Make a decision then make it right” -Military Maxim
Many of my regeny peers have not liked my open palette of life experience sources through the years…
but many of them have not materialised anything in the world either, so im comfy in my little container of one with this…
The field of war and military strategy holds deep insights into not only the human condition but the nature of reality itself
What doesnt work dies in the field and what does gives us deep insight through the cognitive bias of the rose tinted glasses we like to view our world through
The principles of strategy, the understanding of human nature as individuals, as groups, and in different containers, give us invaluable understanding of how we make decisions, the paradigm we are working from, and how we shape decisions in everything we do
If you cant see or understand that all of us in this modern world world are in a live psy-op at a global scale then you will never have a clear view of the ‘reality’ you believe you are working in
You will not see many of the blinders and limiters which give you the illusion of decision though the reality of a straight march to your own debt enslaved death
Much military strategy is based in observable patterns and organic evolution
a way to act in a dynamic environment when you dont have all the answers (which we never do)
How living organisms run the OODA loop
Observe — sense the surroundings: light, moisture, chemical signals, pressure, threat.
Orient — filter it through what you already are: your genes, your past experience, the conditions you were formed in. Same signal, different response, depending on the organism.
Decide — commit resources one way and not another. Grow here, not there. Flower now, not later.
Act — put out a root, a shoot, a spore, a movement.
The principles underneath it
Probe cheap, commit expensive. Roots and fungal threads send out many thin, low-cost feelers. Whichever one finds water gets thickened; the rest are abandoned. Small experiments first, mass follows the winner.
Loop speed matches the environment. Weeds in disturbed ground cycle fast. Old trees in stable forest cycle slow. Speed isn’t a virtue — it’s a fit to how fast conditions change.
Every action rewrites the environment. A tree that grows shades the soil, drops litter, changes the water table. Its next observation is of a world it made. The loop is never run twice in the same place.
Failure is mismatch, not weakness. Organisms die when their orientation stops matching conditions — still working perfectly, just reading an old world.
Break down to build up. Growth means dismantling existing structure and reassembling it. Same in cognition: old models have to be broken before better ones form.
The loop is often shared, not individual. A population, a colony, a mycelial network runs the loop across many bodies at once — no single organism has to be right.
Next Steps…
Dissipate the wobble through a framework
might need more information on the Observation so will ask the team today
Orientate through the principles of the Sun Villages model
Decide on critical path for the next stage of work
Act… mmmm, action
my favourite six letter word
…not exactly what my friend here was talking about but this sector does love a healthy dose of rationalisation and self-justification with a sprinkle of self-serving bias
