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OODA Loop — Decide Like Fighter Pilots
Fast decisions, incomplete information — everyday reality in engineering leadership.
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Michał Poczwardowski
The Red Queen Effect - Mental Model: Work Smarter, Not Faster
Are you running fast but seem to stay in the same place?
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Evolution - Mental Model: AI-voiding Extinction
Species adapt, or they go extinct.
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Leverage - Mental Model
“Give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” — Archimedes
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Critical Mass - Mental Model
Buying my first pair of proper running shoes was one of the best decisions of my life.
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Friction - Mental Model
Every day, you fight against an invisible force — it’s everywhere, uses up your willpower, and slows you down. That’s friction.
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Alloying - Mental Model
It’s greater than the sum of its parts.
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Compounding - Mental Model
Real progress is the accumulation of your efforts.
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Activation Energy - Mental Model
Why we fail to accomplish New Year's resolutions.
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Churn, Attrition and Decay - Mental Model
Accept reality and move forward.
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Diminishing Returns - Mental Model
You need to find a new way of doing things because the old way won’t work forever.
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Emergence - Mental Model
When something is greater than the sum of its parts.
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