Boyd

Why it’s on the list: Robert Coram’s biography of John Boyd — the OODA loop, energy-manoeuvrability theory, and a career spent making enemies inside the Pentagon to get his ideas adopted.

Where I heard about it

• Recommended by Zack Kanter in a May 2020 reply on X listing books he’d recommend (saved in Kyle’s Roam notes, May 11th, 2020).
• My own bookshelf — a book I own but haven’t read: the literal anti-library case, bought and shelved rather than recommended.
• In Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Full Reading List (Investor Field Guide, 2016) — the archive of his monthly book-club recommendations, saved by Kyle in April 2020 — Full Reading List (Investor Field Guide).
• Unknown — saved again as an Amazon link to my “Things to read” note, October 2023.

Connections

• Books To Read — the Apple Note this shelf transcription came from.