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For me tactics only makes sense when looked at as a socio-technical system. This thread reflects that way of thinking.
Again I'll be using British examples but there are some US crossovers later on.
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My starting place is Lionel Wigram and the Battle School Movement.
The principle objectives were concerned with training a mass of newly conscripted infantry in how to fight. There were precedents from the FWW. This movement though was set up by a Territorial Army officer.
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I referenced Tim Harrison-Place's excellent book in an earlier thread on SWW small arms.
There's also this excellent article on Wigram and the Infantry
Wigram sought to inoculate new soldiers from the chaos of battle while training them in the basics of what might simplistically be called fire and movement.
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As I said in this earlier thread, there was a tension within the Army between those were part of the institution's professional ethos and the new conscripts that made up the mass of the
The ethos of the professional Army valued marksmanship as an indication of their professionalism.
— Dr Matthew Ford (@warmatters) December 23, 2020
More than this, I'd contend they did not entirely trust a conscript army to do what was necessary.
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Emerging ideas to follow.
I am determined to find an expression of zettelkasten that makes sense to me.
— Brandon Toner \U0001f331 (@brandontoner) December 27, 2020
An idea management system that "just works".
One that allows me to sink into a state of ordered *flow*. pic.twitter.com/AWftjMIH33
My goal is to MINIMIZE RESISTANCE to MAXIMIZE FLOW.
I want to capture ALL resonant ideas, and to move things up the maturity progression as quickly as my clarity allows.
Common inputs for "literature" notes/questions:
Podcasts: @AirrAudio
Articles: @worldbrain
Twitter: @readwiseio
Books: @AmazonKindle
All sent to @RoamResearch in a standardized template using the @readwiseio integration *chef's kiss*
I make the literature (summary) notes AS I'M READING/LISTENING.
These appear as a note nested under the highlight in Roam.
Then, to make it a bit nicer, I flip it.
Rather than the literature note nested under the highlight, I nest the highlight under the literature note (as a block ref)
The movie was weirdly obsessed with Arabs and Muslims. Probably worse than Iron Man 1. That was a uh... bold choice.
For reference
oh................ oh.......... oh NO pic.twitter.com/0CpiEjjM9I
— josh lewis (@thejoshl) December 26, 2020
Wait I also forgot they put this terrible loc-wig on an Indian actor and said he was a descendent of Mayans loooool. This movie was an 80 movies in the most 80 ways possible : terrible stereotyping and casting
(Hilariously the movie was co-written by Geoff Johns, an Arab American)
Here's New York's GAR with a WTF and a GH Thomas namedrop
Here's Indiana, New Jersey, South Dakota, Delaware, New Mexico, Kansas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with a double shotted "aw hell no"
Vermont with a "get lost"
https://t.co/WdaJaPto0U
From the same article, Kansas nearly sending a John Brown monument, which would've been EPIC:
The debate was pretty hot in the GAR encampment of 1910 ( https://t.co/f88VlJVeyd some were for letting bygones be bygones.. The nation was united now, right? Then this dude from Georgia spoke up:
"Where does your script live?"
Wanted to get into why this question is so important -- and the two separate parts to it. 1/
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The idea for this thread sprang from a tweet that @nevslin put out there: /3
What should I write next? A Quiet Place-esque thriller with a Sixth Sense level twist or a comedic re-imagining of a Greek myth? (Both features.)
— Noah Evslin \U0001f4fa\U0001f39e\U0001f58a (@nevslin) December 16, 2020
People like @MuseZack, @bryanedwardhill, and myself encouraged Zack to write the "A Quiet Place-Esque thriller with a Sixth Sense level twist." As Zack put it: /4
If it's got a great hook, the former has a better chance of selling.
— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) December 16, 2020
And as @bryanedwardhill pointed out:
I think about it like this. The first idea could be made by a LOT of different filmmakers, with varying levels of celebrity stars.
— Hilluminati (@bryanedwardhill) December 16, 2020
The second? A shorter list on both accounts so much harder to put together. You\u2019d need an 800 lb gorilla directing AND major A-list talent acting.
1. Lewin & Cachanosky, "The Average Period of Production: History and Rehabilitation of an Idea"
Good fisking & constructive replacement of the idea of 'roundaboutness' in capital theory. Even though I think they can go further. ↓ https://t.co/LgxNclt1g2 https://t.co/7yI5eVRuWQ
2. O'Hear, "Popperian Individualism Today"
Good, concise statement of an important point:
Nice essay on Popper's open society. Bare proceduralism isn't enough to hold together a community; a functional open society is "itself a substantive tradition". https://t.co/pkGddGVdIz pic.twitter.com/7CZLZd4dWw
— Cameron Harwick \U0001f3db (@C_Harwick) April 9, 2020
3. Zero HP Lovecraft - "God Shaped Hole"
I enjoyed last year's "The Gig Economy" better, but this still lives up to the idea of Lovecraftian cosmic horror better than anything the actual Lovecraft ever wrote.
The internet is an ocean that we invent as we explore it. In the murky darkness of virtual places, there could be dragons, shoggoths, leviathans...
— Zero HP Lovecraft (@0x49fa98) November 16, 2019
This is an index of my threads. Start here, with my most ambitious work to date:https://t.co/xd38LvvCxJ
4. Keane, "Sincerity, Modernity, and the Protestants"
Interesting case study of the W.E.I.R.D.ification of a south pacific tribe and how the Protestant converts, unlike the Catholic ones, fundamentally change their relationship to ritual. https://t.co/vYTgufbrU1
Noun; 1: the forefront of an action or movement; 2: the troops moving at the head of an army
"Heroes like this that you have never heard of before now are going to start coming to the forefront. They are the vanguard of saving this republic."
https://t.co/JJ10XjT85e
"It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations." @BenKTallmadge @BabeReflex_8 @AaronDaboul pic.twitter.com/zQCvX0plzt
— Shannon (@Avery1776) December 25, 2020