This is military strategist John Boyd’s framework for combat operations that also turns out to apply quite well to businesses and learning in general. It’s really not that far from the ol’ test-learn cycle or a good design process.
There’s lots of nuance to his framework, but some of the application of it that I like includes:
I learned about it from Reid Hoffman’s excellent Masters of Scale podcast.
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