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I believe that perfection of form lies in the intersection between intuition, knowledge and person.  A singular presence embodying all of this was the late John Boyd. Others who have seeked and found the perfection of form are Bruce Lee, Sun Tzu, John Zachman and Albert Einstein. All of these where or in the case of [...]

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To much time and effort is spent on looking far in to the future. Often enough fixated on a single target architecture, a to-be state that has little to do with the way business is actually being done. It’s time we start utilizing the tools we’ve got to work with rolling architectures. The dynamics of business and [...]

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I was studying the strategy of John Boyd, his theory of practice is focused on the “time factor”. In the presentation “certain to win” by Chet Richards, he has a slide #15 that says:

Time is the only physical parameter with a direction (the “arrow of time.”)
You don’t have an unlimited supply.
Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Sure [...]

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