The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business - Elaine Pofeldt (more)

*The Way of Effortless Mindfulness - Loch Kelly (more)

book about management cybernetics by Dan Davies ISBN:1788169549 (see Accountability, Pathological) (more)

The Most Interested Person - Rajesh Setty (more)

Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness - Loch Kelly (more)

50 Years of Text Games - From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon - A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction. https://if50.textories.com/ (more)

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Zvi Mowshowitz: The Curve Bends You. The plan is no plan. That is not the worst possible plan. But it is close. (more)

Jacob Falkovich: The Precarious Mediocre Life of Zoe Zoomette (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Monthly Roundup #46: September 2026. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz on Childhood and Education #12: College Admissions (more)

a Programming Language (more)

Erik Hoel: It is of immense moral urgency and of immense civilizational importance that we solve consciousness. (re AGI?) (more)

Recognition-primed decision (RPD) is a model of how people make quick, effective decisions when faced with complex situations. In this model, the decision maker is assumed to generate a possible course of action, compare it to the constraints imposed by the situation, and select the first course of action that is not rejected. RPD has been described in diverse groups including trauma nurses, fireground commanders, chess players, and stock market traders. It functions well in conditions of time pressure, and in which information is partial and goals poorly defined. The limitations of RPD include the need for extensive experience among decision-makers (in order to correctly recognize the salient features of a problem and model solutions) and the problem of the failure of recognition and modeling in unusual or misidentified circumstances. It appears, as discussed by Gary Klein in Sources of Power,[1] to be a valid model for how human decision-makers make decisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition-primed_decision

John Schmitt: OODA Versus RPD: Reconciling Models of Cognition and Conflict. I am sometimes asked about the relationship of the OODA Loop to Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) in general and Gary Klein’s Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model in particular. Usually, the asker is a fan of all three searching for a way to integrate them into a unified theory of decision making. (more)

Mental Model, Framework, heuristic (more)

Cognitive flexibility is an intrinsic property of a cognitive system often associated with the mental ability to adjust its activity and content, switch between different task rules and corresponding behavioral responses, maintain multiple concepts simultaneously and shift internal attention between them.[1] The term cognitive flexibility is traditionally used to refer to one of the executive functions.[2] In this sense, it can be seen as neural underpinnings of adaptive and flexible behavior. Most flexibility tests were developed under this assumption several decades ago. Nowadays, cognitive flexibility can also be referred to as a set of properties of the brain that facilitate flexible yet relevant switching between functional brain states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_flexibility (more)

Cedric Chin: Let's talk about how note taking can help you accelerate expertise. (tweetstorm followed by longer article) (more)

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