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Loops, Truth, and Tempo: The Strategic Genius of John Boyd, #12

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John Boyd never got queasy on a carnival ride. He loved loops. He flew them, he studied them, and eventually he turned them into one of the most powerful strategic tools of the modern age. In the cockpit, loops were his edge—rolling, climbing, and diving until he was behind his opponent in forty seconds or less. Later, in briefing rooms filled with generals and CEOs, loops became his metaphor for how to outthink, outmaneuver, and outlast any rival.

Boyd was a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, but calling him that undersells him. He was part pilot, part mathematician, part philosopher, and part troublemaker. He asked questions nobody wanted asked, and once he started, he wouldn’t stop until you saw the world differently.

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