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by DanielBMarkham 4273 days ago
Yeah but it's bloviating. Here's why: at some point you have to check to see if what you're doing is actually taking you somewhere. Sure, maybe you use magic rocks or a psychic telephone hotline to get your vision -- his "we focus too much on incremental" point may be spot-on -- but at some point you gotta have an OODA loop. You gotta stop and take measure of what the heck is going on.

So perhaps he could have gone somewhere interesting with this, it ended up as a rhetorical drive-by shooting.

Having said all of that, the man knows a zillion times more stuff than I do. I'm simply pointing out that this quote is so woefully incomplete as to be sophistry.