Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Recognizing the Loss of Situational Awareness.
Lists Paul Craig’s twelve pilot heuristics—from measure twice to visualize the perfect flight—as cues that situational awareness is slipping before control is lost.
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Repeating a Grade.
Uses a repeated senior year as thought experiment—extra time can brand a student an outcast in their own mind, eroding belief and dragging performance unless the loop is consciously broken.
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Discovering Situational Awareness.
Flight training and Paul Craig’s primer show situational awareness as staying head-up under load—traffic and rust easily pull eyes inside the cockpit, which is why manuals keep repeating “fly the plane.”
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Twilight Struggle: Starting Off.
Opens Twilight Struggle by isolating victory points, influence, ignorable tournament sections, and the nine-step turn rhythm—shrinking a long manual to the spine needed before deeper rules or strategy.
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Inspiration: John Maeda
Capsule bio and links for John Maeda—Media Lab research, corporate commissions, Laws of Simplicity, and talks on humanizing technology and restraint in digital design.
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"True" and "False" Advancement Experience
Revisits a decade-old “true vs false advancement” memo—goal-linked learning vs drift—and loosens the binary into awareness of destination plus flexible focus so detours and missing skills stay intentional, not noise.