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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Nov 2019
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    Anyone know of good refs about both reading and writing good briefs, within institutions like the CIA or other places where people must produce and consume a lot of rich, detailed situation awareness information very quickly? High-value, high-transience intelligence basically

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Nov 2019
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        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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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Nov 2019
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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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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Nov 2019
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        Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

        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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        Theory: a knowledge-based institution is only as good as its primary internal "genre" of briefing material (style, composition principles etc). It doesn't matter whether it's the famous Amazon 6-pager or a slide-deck pro-forma. It has to be a learnable skilled genre.
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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Nov 2019
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        Venkatesh Rao Retweeted The Art of Gig

        https://twitter.com/artofgig/status/1195427958665572354 …

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        The Art of Gig @artofgig
        I'm looking for examples of *excellent* corporate briefs, analyst reports etc. that you actually enjoyed reading, for a possible newsletter issue/issues on that theme. If public, post links as replies. If not public, but you're willing to share with me, please DM.
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      1.  🕷BenjaminP.Taylor 🇪🇺‏ @antlerboy 15 Nov 2019
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        Cc @INTLSpyCast

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      1. Rishi Taparia‏ @taps 15 Nov 2019
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        Rishi Taparia Retweeted Rishi Taparia

        Bookmarking tweet hoping your reach gets some better responses than I got. I asked the same question a few months ago to crickets...https://twitter.com/taps/status/1175440714701762561?s=20 … Pinged around to a few friends who've worked in those institutions, got a bunch of wishy washy answers #whatissosecret

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        Does anyone know someone who has previously worked in a Senate office or the White House building briefing books? Looking for an introduction!
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      1. Steve Bryant‏ @stevebryant 15 Nov 2019
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        The Quartermaster newsletter (written by two special forces vets) often has resources devoted to answering questions like this https://quartermaster.substack.com/ 

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      1. Anna Gát‏ @TheAnnaGat 15 Nov 2019
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        Stripe / @zebriez or Amazon people?

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      1. Brian Sniffen‏ @BrianSniffen 15 Nov 2019
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        I know RV Jones said that method was crap, and you had to be involved in the work to brief it upwards. And that method worked for him under quite some stress.

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      2. Sriram Krishnan‏Verified account @sriramk 15 Nov 2019
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        You might like https://sriramk.com/memos 

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      3. Don‏ @goldblatchikens 15 Nov 2019
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        That's pretty nice,I'd suggest you add the Netflix internal presentation on culture.

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