GR-OSS OUT Podcast

Imposter Syndrome: The OODA Loop Framework from Fighter Pilots with Major Hayden

July 16th, 2026  |  40 mins 13 secs

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Major Hayden — longtime Fedora packager and Red Hat engineer, formerly of Rackspace — joins host Jay Faulkner to talk about imposter syndrome in tech, and the framework he's used for over a decade to work through it: the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act), originally developed for fighter pilot decision-making.