All those years of sitting in on mind-numbing meetings in stuffy conference rooms thinking I'd rather be juggling chain saws or dreaming of beach vacations...well, here I am.
I love the idea that even a messy process is a process. Retirement seems like the ultimate playground for experimentation. Thanks for sharing your insights, Gregory!
Indeed. Many times the messy process, in the sense of "complex" or intricate" at first glance, is the ideal process. Pretty much describes biology and the chemical machinery of life. Lots of wiggle room and buffers to accommodate errors and experiments. Reducing things to very simple elements is helpful, sometimes necessary, but can become a trap if we think the world always or should happen linearly according to ridge cause and effect.
This had me thinking of Boyd's OODA Loops. How fast can you get through the "loop" of each stage is the trick. How quickly can you cycle through the four phases? Loops within the bigger loop of retirement/restoration.
I love the idea that even a messy process is a process. Retirement seems like the ultimate playground for experimentation. Thanks for sharing your insights, Gregory!
Indeed. Many times the messy process, in the sense of "complex" or intricate" at first glance, is the ideal process. Pretty much describes biology and the chemical machinery of life. Lots of wiggle room and buffers to accommodate errors and experiments. Reducing things to very simple elements is helpful, sometimes necessary, but can become a trap if we think the world always or should happen linearly according to ridge cause and effect.
This had me thinking of Boyd's OODA Loops. How fast can you get through the "loop" of each stage is the trick. How quickly can you cycle through the four phases? Loops within the bigger loop of retirement/restoration.