Catching up on Christopher Alexander stuff it strikes me that his work has close parallels to John Boyd. Might even be isomorphic at some level. 🤔
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This by feels like an accurate gloss of his legacy. Can’t judge since I haven’t delved and don’t intend to. The 11-step “fundamental differentiating process” looks like an unrolled OODA loop. Patterns had a role for both.
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For a comparative religion person or Great Nan biographer type to dive into. I know more about Boyd than Alexander, but am not Straussian-scholar-religious enough to truly go deep into either.
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Just the one paper, destruction and creation. Plus half a dozen slide decks he updated constantly. The big one is patterns of conflict which took 8 hours to deliver and he refused to shorten
FYI, my dad got his PhD in educational psychology. His thesis created a system for measuring and improving OODA loops.
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