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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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        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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        Venkatesh Rao @vgr
        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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      2. «Sam•Forsythe»‏ @poly_metis 15 Nov 2019
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        There's this DOI Style Manual from 2011: https://fas.org/irp/cia/product/style.pdf …

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      3. «Sam•Forsythe»‏ @poly_metis 15 Nov 2019
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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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      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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      2. Kelvin Tse‏ @kelvinltse 15 Nov 2019
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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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      3. Basti Moritz‏ @bastimori 15 Nov 2019
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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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