[Inspired by Aella's Facebook post on the Monastic Academy. There are serious questions involved with giving your life to a Zen Monastery and whether Soryu is an appropriate teacher for you. I am not answering that. FWIW, I feel warmly towards Soryu and my values do prioritize human sentience over other sentience beings. There was misunderstanding in the thread that implied he wanted everyone dead, however in the talk he was telling the story of how he released his hatred. For this story, we will forget that part!]
It's a scandalous revelation: Soryu is actually a bond villain.
However Bond won't be our hero. Our hero lives in the east bay. They aren't sexist... (read 1024 more words →)
This reminds me of Cynefin, that breaks human situations in to domains. The complex domain is where decentralized seems most relevant. This is where perpetual novelty can be met with experimentation. Examples they give for how to operate in the complex domain, are:
The marines use these heuristics:
Keep Moving, Seek the High Ground, Stay in Touch (a rif by someone in that community)
Napoleon used this heuristic:
March to the sound of the guns
Going further using the framework, logistical problems, although immense when be solved in the complicated domain, that is, with good practice and repeatable results can then be scaled.