Boyd’s Quiz

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Colonel Boyd would use this quiz along with an exercise that ended up creating/building a snowmobile. It is an interesting exercise and it, to me, is about thinking outside the box. Making connections from seemingly disparate individual things into one thing or seeing multiple things in a way that makes one or more different things when synthesized into something - new. 

It is also about, “Making novel connections to solve problems to win against an adversary under severe time constraints. Usually some deception or other stratagem is required to create false perceptions. Perception is everything, and manipulating that is the essence of strategy.” - Grant Hammond, The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security 

It is also about, “To make connections, to synthesize, to push the limits of personal knowledge, to expand horizons, to think about myriad apparently unrelated topics, in short, to build snowmobiles.” - Grant Hammond, The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security

What becomes important to maneuver defense/offense is developing and maintaining this ability to build from disparate things the one thing that you use to build tactics on the fly and under pressure so that you can use them in a situationally unique appropriate fashion while facing the uncertainty of violence and the unpredictable changes that brings in defense/offense. 

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