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What are other terms for "metagames"? terms that might be more useful to search for relevant literature

Jun 13, 2020

can anyone recommend material on metagames? or related

Jun 16, 2020

“One might call what I was looking for ‘a metacookbook’—a book not about a certain cuisine or style of cooking, but about cooking itself—and I found good ones to be surprisingly rare”

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Max Krieger

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Jun 15, 2020

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Have heard great things about @CiaoSamin's Salt Fat Acid Heat. In particular, unlike Bittman, it optimizes for composability and fundamental skills over comprehensiveness: theatlantic.com/entertainment/

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, very much what I'm looking for commoncog.com/blog/to-get-go

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Author here. You might also enjoy Richard Garfield’s paper on meta games: 0gamestechsociety.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/2000-g (Garfield is creator of Magic The Gathering).

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I’ve actually been thinking about meta games a bit more since I wrote that post. The really generic example of metagame thinking is probably Boyd: commoncog.com/blog/much-ado- A more concrete version, though restricted to a specific career example, is: commoncog.com/blog/parable-p

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Much Ado About The OODA Loop

An in-depth look at John Boyd and the OODA loop, the strategic thinker most concerned about fast adaptation under uncertainty.

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has a really nice talk that loops (pun intended) Boyd's work in! I have often followed the adage "Less haste, more speed" - and it appears that the OODA loop is a formalisation of this.

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Do you have a link to this, by any chance?

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Not sure. I normally just focus on PDSA, making reference to Boyd's OODA loop in passing, but sometimes I also diagram the loop and show correspondence. But I can't recall which recorded talks OODA has appeared in, I'm afraid.