Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 69) - OODA Loop, IQ + EQ = PQ, Personal Innovation at Scale.

Day 69 done!

Discussing Colonel John Boyd's PQ & his OODA Loop.

Observe, Orient, Decide, Act, repeated on loop to create change with speed.

IQ + EQ = PQ (Persuasion Quotient). PQ also matters for speed in influencing change.

Both matter for personal innovation.

Articles Discussed

I had never heard of John Boyd until seeing this article shared. Incredible.

Miranda Devine@mirandadevine

Amazing read about John Boyd, A profane, broke fighter pilot from Erie who designed the F-16, set fire to a general’s necktie, and wrote the plan for the second wave attack against Iran thirty years before it happened. "Sometime in the next several days, the President of the

5:42 PM · May 2, 2026 · 51.7K Views

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“They Passed Him Over for General Because He Cursed in Front of the Wrong People. Twenty-Nine Years After His Death, the Pentagon Is Quietly Borrowing His Strategy to Defeat Iran.”

They Passed Him Over for General Because He Cursed in Front of the Wrong People. Twenty-Nine Years After His Death, the Pentagon Is Quietly Borrowing His Strategy to Defeat Iran.

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