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This reminds of the concept of D.I.E. that we use in the social sciences, describe, interpret, and evaluate. It is important to separate the stages clearly, because if you interpret while describing, this taints your observations. Evaluate can be seen as a precursor to action, because it is from the implications where science then moves forward.

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OODA is a lot more than that. Since it is something developed for adversarial interactions, you’re also talking about disrupting or overwhelming the adversary’s OODA. Or another way is feeding the OODA bad intel (tainting their observations), and then stepping up the tempo so that they are making worse decisions faster. Another is taking advantage of the adversary’s “frame” (the orientation) and using that to drive the adversary into diverging from reality. (Sun Tzu talks about direct and indirect actions for that).

There’s also a version of OODA where things become intuitive and there are shortcuts within OODA as well.

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Oh wow, cool. Thanks for the explanation. This is very stimulating as a concept, I will dig deeper then. Actually, this can be quite productive as a research strategy.