1). Since seeing the OODA loop mentioned on your blog, I’ve seen it referenced in a few places, and actually started applying it to past scenarios in my life… I can totally see where it is of high value to understand and utilize.

2). I don’t know if you’ve seen this before, but if you are still trying to understand Bayesian Theory, Eliezer Yudkowsky offers a great primer: http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/bayes.html — I still struggle, but it helps.

3). I read Gladwell’s ‘The Tipping Point’ a few weekends ago, and I think I enjoyed it, the premise at least, more so than ‘Blink.’ I would like to see it updated though, to include greater analysis of Web 2.0 and refute some more recent criticism. Have you read any of Gladwell’s articles in “The New Yorker” or seen his TEDTalk? Definitely worth checking out.

I think it is that constant availability of knowledge offered by the blogs I frequent which I enjoy the most… a product, I reckon, of the networking aspect. So often, I find a word or phrase or general philosophy which I don’t quite understand (or have never even been exposed to), but with the prevalence of links or at least the accessibility of Wikipedia and Google, an explanation is never too far away.

“Not knowing should be reframed as an opportunity to learn a new skill or new information.” Indeed.

I have an aunt who doesn’t care to learn one thing. She’s fine with her life just like it is. I find I am actually very relaxed around her, and not striving so hard to learn more/be more/do more. But sometimes it irritates me that she doesn’t seem to have goals beyond taking care of her family and eating ice-cream every night while watching TV.

Thanks a lot for this.