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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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