Recently learned that top intelligence community leaders spend like 90 minutes every morning mastering briefs prepared for them overnight by their orgs (make sense... if your job is pure intelligence, it all has to go somewhere and be understood holistically by somebody)
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I used to be much better at this, but have gotten rusty. Badly presented rich detail quickly turns into FUD and I find myself falling back upon my pre-intelligence derp positions (after all the purpose of real intel is to get you to update your priors and update the narrative)
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When a document in a good "private institutional genre" is done skillfully, it is an active pleasure to read and master. When it is bad, it is painful bureaucratic paperwork that increases FUD and reinforces derp.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195424138417983488 …
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There's this DOI Style Manual from 2011: https://fas.org/irp/cia/product/style.pdf …
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Also very relevant to CIA in-house style is Sherman Kent's classic "Words of Estimative Probability", which still finds currency even in the current IARPA research on updating intelligence analysis reasoning and forecasting: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/sherman-kent-and-the-board-of-national-estimates-collected-essays/6words.html …
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That's pretty nice,I'd suggest you add the Netflix internal presentation on culture.
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Not exactly what you're looking for, but the CIA published a book on Intelligence Analysis compiled from internal articles from the 70s and 80s. https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis …pic.twitter.com/Bbj348KAUJ
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Seems like an interesting read: "Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just about the judgments and conclusions themselves."
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