Boyd would have been 87 today. Hat tip to acolyte Ray Leopold for reminding me of this.
Slightly East of New
something to do with orientation …
Boyd would have been 87 today. Hat tip to acolyte Ray Leopold for reminding me of this.
Slightly East of New 
Chet,
Might you remember Boyd’s assertion near the beginning of a presentation, where
he would caution that the “worst things you could call him,” were, “an expert” “an analyst” ,,and I forget the third,,
But all very entertaining.
I’ll look those up, as time permits.
M
Max,
I remember “analyst,” because it means you only have half a brain, and “expert,” because it means you think you know everything (i.e., your mind is closed). Don’t recall a third. Anybody?
🙂 I think he combined. “Expert and Analyst” and in true characteristic Boyd fashion,
came up with ” that means, I have half a brain, I know it all, and can’t learn anything ! ”
lol
Boyd spent a lot more time than he wanted to with experts and analysts inside the Beltway. The prologue to Shunryu Suzuki’s classic Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind sums it up well: In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.
I have been asked whether this contradicts the idea of developing Fingerspitzengefeuhl.