No Way Out - The OODA Loop Podcast

No Way Out Podcast explores the concepts behind and evolving applications of Col. John Boyd's OODA loop. Hosts: @nowayoutmoose & @PonchAGLX

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You are already in the Guerrilla Information War. Most of your competitors don't know it yet.
@PonchAGLX and @NoWayOutMoose teach Strategic Orientation with John Boyd's real OODA "loop" — not the speed meme.
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🎙️ Podcasts | 📷 Keynotes | link below

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"Outside Information"

https://t.co/3kMkRtUY3Y

[Evan McGloughlin @evan_mcgl]

We are truly standing on the shoulders of Giants today!

@drmichaellevin together with @MillerLabMIT

"Physicalism has been dead since the time of Pythagoras, and probably long before that."

"The basement of all this, I don't think, is math. I think this is behavioral science. I think math is a behavioural science of a certain kind of pattern."

"It's a bioelectric code, because the network instructs the patterns of gene expression and cell behaviour and morphogenesis. If you want the system to make an eye on a tadpole's tail, or a flatworm that has two heads… you have a chance to do that."

Scientists working at the bleeding edge of bioelectricity at very different scales. They agree stuff, they disagree on stuff. Watch now ⬇️

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To Be or To Do.

[Rich "Corky" Erie @RSE_VB]

My Dad (36 year Naval Officer and Aviator) dropped his letter TWICE (to leave the Navy) in his career when the Bureau tried to send him the DC to punch his Flag ticket.

Both times, the Bureau asked what he wanted instead. His answer was one word both times: “Operational.”

He wanted to stay in the fight, serve his Sailors, and avoid entirely the DC Flag circuit.

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🎥 Karl Friston on why it all converges.

Orientation. Prediction. Least action. Same physics, three vocabularies.

The edge in the AI age isn't more compute—it's faster orientation. We don't beat the system by fighting harder. We attune faster.

@NoWayOutMoose @PonchAGLX @mablum

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@KeithMcCullough of @Hedgeye sharing We Are as Gods by @PeterDiamandis & @steven_kotler today.

Here's what's underneath the whole book: the Free Energy Principle. The brain is a prediction engine that survives by minimizing surprise. Flow is FEP in action.

And per Karl Friston himself—Boyd's OODA loop is isomorphic to the FEP.
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Bullets Rule!

VF-2 Bounty Hunters.

[Keith McCullough @KeithMcCullough]

Fresh off multiple Institutional Client calls and ready to help you risk manage the close

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@KeithMcCullough @RichB118 Far-from-equilibrium.

The OODA Loop is "an evolving, open-ended, far-from-equilibrium process of self-organization, emergence, and natural selection.”

Real OODA.

[Keith McCullough @KeithMcCullough]

“Markets are not mechanical systems that drift back toward balance.”
-Richard Brennan @RichB118

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[Richard Brennan @RichB118]

Real pleasure to join Brian "Ponch" Rivera and Mark "Moose" McGrath on the No Way Out podcast this week.

Ponch and Moose run one of the more intellectually honest conversations I've come across. Their work on the OODA loop, complex adaptive systems, and the free energy principle sits at exactly the intersection that trend following has been quietly occupying for decades, and it was a gift to talk with hosts who already speak the language.

A few of the threads we pulled on:

-Why most investors lose because they're running a predictive model in a system that punishes prediction.

-Why price is the one benchmark your domain hands you that the natural world never did, and what it means to align with it rather than forecast against it.

-Why change in markets arrives in fits and starts rather than gradients, and why a diversified trend following net is about spreading opportunity across a fractal structure, not diluting an edge.

-Why the geometry of wealth is multiplicative, not additive, and why minimising loss matters more than picking winners.

-And a wander into deeper territory: David Bohm's implicate order, Wheeler's participatory universe, the subtractive frame I work through in Carved by Impossibility, and why I think structure is residue rather than generative form.

Grateful to Jerry Parker for the introduction that started this, and to Ponch and Moose for the kind of conversation that doesn't happen often enough.

Listen to the episode: https://t.co/Ck8fkKlqdH

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The future isn’t predicted. It’s constructed.

Richard Brennan (@RichB118) drops pure fire on No Way Out: harmonics = coherence with your map of the world.

Exactly what @PonchAGLX was hitting at @Hedgeye Live on attractors, fractals & the brain as a prediction machine.

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🎙️ Full episode is a masterclass in complex adaptive systems & markets. Drop a 🔥 if you’re in the Hedgeye crowd that gets it.

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@PonchAGLX at @Hedgeye Live → Attractors, fractals, prediction machines.

Richard Brennan on No Way Out → Price as the ultimate benchmark in a complex adaptive system. Align, don’t predict.

Two minds, same wavelength.

New episode is live. Hedgeye nation, you’re gonna love this one.

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Let’s be honest, the model
@joerogan is building is the real OODA loop.

There is No Way Out.

Joe Rogan Experience #2496 - Julia Mossbridge https://t.co/JACfq2yzRD via @YouTube

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7/7
The full two-hour conversation is the closest thing yet to a formal validation of what Boyd was reaching for.

https://t.co/Ibvvt3Vnyq

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Karl Friston, most-cited neuroscientist alive, architect of the Free Energy Principle, read John Boyd’s actual OODA sketch on our show.

His response: "isomorphic with active inference."

Boyd's open-ended, far-from-equilibrium process of self-organization, emergence, and natural selection now has its mathematics.

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6/7

What changes for AI: current LLMs do not encode uncertainty, cannot plan over counterfactual futures, cannot truly act. They generate. They do not orient. Friston: the next architecture is biomimetic, with constrained curiosity.

Looks far more like Boyd than like anything we have now.

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@deniseholt_

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Here's what the film doesn't do.

On No Way Out, Karl Friston connects the Free Energy Principle to John Boyd's OODA loop — the real one, not the four-box cartoon.

Boyd wrote about it in 1976. Sketched it in 1995. Friston formalized it.

We also get into the work of @michaelpollan and @drmichaellevin

50-second preview — Karl on how psychedelics actually work:

Full episode: April 28.

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Sam Harris (@MakingSenseHQ) just dropped Unraveling the Dream.

Beautiful film on the science of psychedelics — featuring the work of @RCarhartHarris, Karl Friston, and @anilkseth.

Watch it before next Tuesday.

On April 28, No Way Out drops our episode with Karl Friston — where we go deeper on all of it.

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