{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68357ec21b846c88bdcd7480/6a56500b92be37cb7b25654d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"147: The taco shop gambit","description":"<p><strong>What does a six-year-old cartoon dog have to do with a maverick fighter pilot's theory of strategy?</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In this one we feel our way through two theories of how humans create knowledge — David Deutsch's collaborative \"Taking Children Seriously\" and John Boyd's adversarial OODA loop — and discover that Bluey's dad needed both, and had neither.</p><p><br></p><p>From bath-time burger shops to spitting toddlers, we try to work out when to problem-solve <em>with</em> people and when to (gently, lovingly) run rings around them.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why Bandit got comprehensively outsmarted by a 6 year old in a bathtub</li><li>The radical parenting philosophy that works beautifully right up until your toddler wants to run into a road</li><li>How a fighter pilot reverse-engineered his own brilliance (and why he <em>loved</em> discovering he was wrong)</li><li>Is deception a necessary ingredient of all strategy? Tom didn't want it to be. He's coming round.</li><li>The \"playing the opposite\" move that turned a spitting contest into the best half hour of the day</li><li>Can you be collaborative one minute and Boydian the next without it becoming good cop, bad cop with your own family?</li><li>Green blackberries, apples under car wheels, and where exactly the boundary sits</li></ul><p><br></p><p>For anyone who's ever tried to reason with a toddler, a colleague, or an entire leadership team — and wondered why what it said in the book didn't work.</p><p><br></p><p>Can you wield both approaches without gaslighting everyone? Drop us a line: <a href=\"mailto:tentacles@crownandreach.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tentacles@crownandreach.com</a></p><p><br></p><h3>References</h3><p><br></p><ul><li>Bluey — \"Burger Shop\" episode (Season 2) <a href=\"https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-2/burger-shop/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-2/burger-shop/</a></li><li>Taking Children Seriously — Sarah Fitz-Claridge &amp; David Deutsch <a href=\"https://takingchildrenseriously.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://takingchildrenseriously.com</a></li><li>Karl Popper — fallibilism and falsifiability</li><li>John Boyd — the OODA loop, Energy-Manoeuvrability theory, and his paper \"Destruction and Creation\" (1976)</li><li>Sun Tzu — The Art of War</li><li>Carl von Clausewitz</li><li>Gödel's incompleteness theorems and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (Boyd's source material)</li><li>Mia Wisinski — Playful Heart Parenting (\"playing the opposite\") <a href=\"https://www.playfulheartparenting.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.playfulheartparenting.com</a></li><li>Immanuel Kant — the categorical imperative</li><li>Red Dwarf — Lister on the real lesson of the Trojan horse</li><li>Taskmaster — the lolly-licking task (trigger warning: don't look up that clip. Or do.)</li><li>The Matrix — bullet time</li></ul>","author_name":"Tom Kerwin"}