The Great Preset: Remote Teams & Operational Art
| Author | Daniel A. Friedman and Richard J. Cordes (eds.), Cognitive Security & Education Forum (COGSEC) |
|---|---|
| Published | 2020 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — A 2020 COGSEC volume on how distributed and remote teams can organise for complex threats, drawing on military operational art, game theory and active inference.
A 2020 collection edited by Daniel A. Friedman and Richard J. Cordes for the Cognitive Security & Education Forum (COGSEC), released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence (ISBN 978-1-7364269-0-6). The title is a play on the “Great Reset” of the same year.
Six chapters, mostly by the two editors: “Emergent Teams for Complex Threats,” “Infinite Games for Infinite Teams,” “Active Inference & Behavior Engineering for Teams” (with Russian co-authors), “The Facilitator’s Catechism” (an analysis of operations orders from antiquity to the present), “Reimagining Maps” (with Mikel Maron) and “The Innovator’s Catechism” (with Steven E. Phelan). The common thread is applying ideas from military operational planning, complexity science and Karl Friston’s active-inference framework to self-organising remote teams. Roughly a quarter of the book is works cited and appendices.
What it is: an independent, self-published collection from a small research and education forum, under a CC licence. No current official host for the full volume was verified (one chapter, The Facilitator’s Catechism, is on Zenodo).
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Archived copy (Google Drive): Google Drive
306 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.