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Le Commandant Alias a passé la nuit chez le général à discuter logique pure. Ça ruine la vie de l’Esprit, la logique pure, Puis il s’est épuisé, sur la route, contre d’interminables embouteillages. Puis il a trouvé, en rentrant au Groupe, cent difficultés matérielles, de celles qui vous rongent peu à peu comme les mille effets d’un glissement de montagne que l’on ne saurait contenir.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Pilote de Guerre

Consultant and guru talk is always perfect, perfectly inside the limits of logic. Well, you know what it follows :-P

Distrust who runs before nasty reality enters scene. Should do a “distrust this post” post soon.

Back to Saint-Ex. Good thing (not much of a surprise) is I’m loving it. It doesn’t matter how piercing but humanist his quotes are. His books are a must.

Bad thing is my copy of Vol de Nuit is missing in action. Or I’ve never had one… I’m not sure anymore…

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Transitioning to agile is difficult. Agile does make the issues transparent. It doesn’t make them easy to solve. At least they can see the problems.

See at Johanna’s.

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I don’t want to get any messages saying, “I am holding my position.” We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy’s ***.

General George S. Patton, Jr.

That’s a three-star general for you (well, take or add one or two).

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This might lead one to suspect that in any competitive endeavor, if you can be modeled (”sand-tabled”, as Boyd referred to it) you aren’t using strategy at all and you can be defeated.

Chet Richards, Certain to win.

Hint: measurable doesn’t imply modelable.

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A veces para correr más, sólo podemos… ¡correr más!

Y (hacer) más ha sido menos (blog). Pero por ahora no le pongo el candado.

Experimento… inconcluso.

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Seek resolution

blz16

—No swordplay?
—Don’t seek combat, Saxon, seek resolution.

Mouse Guard, Winter 1152, #1.

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