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Retired Navy SEAL Adam "Guz" Karaoguz has spent the last ten years building an extension of Boyd's OODA loop he calls the A-Frame. Attention, appreciation, action, with attunement as the goal.
Adam joins Mark McGrath and Brian "Ponch" Rivera to walk through the framework, the work behind it, and the personal experience that shaped both. Naval Postgraduate School thesis on ground force commander decision making. Years of synthesis through Iain McGilchrist on the divided brain, John Vervaeke on parasitic processing and relevance realization, and Gary Klein on recognition-primed decision making. The conversation moves into Adam's ibogaine treatment in Tijuana at Ambio, the integration work after the experience, and the moment he realized he was going for himself, not just for Slider.
Adam also discusses his novel The Infernal Tower, the Story Grid framework he learned through Steven Pressfield's mastermind, and why storytelling and the OODA loop are the same pattern operating at different scales.
Find Adam at the Renaissance Human Substack and on LinkedIn.
John R. Boyd's Conceptual Spiral was originally titled No Way Out. In his own words:
“There is no way out unless we can eliminate the features just cited. Since we don’t know how to do this, we must continue the whirl of reorientation…”
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