Comment on My Ten Most Influential Reads of 2015 by James Phillips

Reading Osinga, I had a lot of fun drawing parallels between Boyd’s theories on different kinds of systems, Taleb’s ideas on antifragility, Munger’s ideas on mental models, and Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow. It seems a handful of people stumbled onto the same problem, but in completely different domains.

I finished Coram’s biography a couple of months ago. It’s a great read. It doesn’t dive real deep into any of the implications of Boyd’s work, but it does give you an idea of the impact t...