Means-Ends, Conditions-Consequences, and the Game of Risk
Most Western strategic thought takes place in a means-ends framework. In this post, I’ll discuss an alternative to means-ends strategic thinking: conditions-consequences.
Category: Strategy 🗺
Strategy Club
For the better part of the last year, we’ve been running a “Strategy Club”, a long-running Anti-Book Club with a focus on learning and applying strategy.
Disfluency and the Methods of Strategy
For me, learning about disfluency has taken the pressure off of learning strategy “correctly.”
Monastic Strategy
If you’re interested in strategy, this post will be valuable to you. It shares the the tools that I’ve found most valuable so far.
The Art of Alliances
This post contains some of the best practices I’ve discovered in developing my own skill in the art of alliances.
Of Probabilistic Thinking and Databases
I don’t think of myself as a betting man, so I was surprised to learn that in fact, we’re making bets all of the time. This is Annie Duke’s main thesis in Thinking in Bets.
An Opinionated Introduction to Samo Burja
The work of Samo Burja provides the best introduction I’ve seen to the theory and practice of power. In this post, I’ll share some of Samo Burja’s biggest ideas and how you can learn more.
Evaporating Clouds on Meditation Retreat
I have done over thirty weeklong meditation retreats. I typically have a conflict come up again and again. An Evaporating Cloud diagram helped me illustrate and resolve this conflict.
Mapping Moneyball
In this post, I’ll show you you how I might apply Empire Theory and Burja Mapping to a more or less “real world situation,” using the film Moneyball (2011), based on Michael Lewis’ best selling book.
On the Use and Abuse of SWOT Diagrams
In this post, I’ll talk about one tool that is surprisingly useful in combination with Burja Maps: the lowly SWOT diagram.