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We wanted to understand how truly expert firefighters could make decisions, and what they told us was surprising: “We never make decisions.” I said “really?” They went on to explain, “You just look at a situation and you know what to do.”

A Story to Illustrate the Purpose of Naturalistic Decision Making

Brian Moon

Naval: In the age we’re in, decisions get magnified 1,000 times, 100,000 times, or a million times. One person decides to code Facemash at Harvard and it becomes Facebook; the other person decides to code something you've never heard of because it was close but not quite.

A Distillation of What @...

@jmikolay on Twitter

22/ A principle called [Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)) gets at why systems must be desynchronized in order to embody the variety required to thrive in complex environments.

Premature Synchronization Is the Root of All Evil

Venkatesh Rao

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