General Hill-Climbing: The One Main Loop in AI

💡There is basically One Main Loop in AI, and it applies to everything from building software to managing pretty much anything.⛰️I call it General Hill-climbing.Here are the main components:🖼️ Know what you want✍️ Be able to articulate it📐 Be able to measure progress🧪 Do the work / test your ideas⇧ Adjust / Iterate / Climb / Repeat ♻️In 2026/2027 modern language that means:1. 🧭 YOUR TELOS (Purpose) You want to start with clear articulation of your current state, your ideal state, your goals, metrics, challenges, strategies, projects, etc. This is where you're trying to get to, where you are now, what you're trying to accomplish, how you measure progress, the things that are stopping you, what you're doing to overcome those issues, the work you're actively doing, etc.📚 TELOS is an open-source framework for writing all of this down in one file. Telos on GitHub.Your TELOS captures this all together, in a single place, so that you, and other people, and your AI systems can all understand…