A Spy’s Guide To Spy Movies: Ronin
Before I joined, the CIA’s Head of Recruitment recommended I watch Ronin to learn something about the life of a spy. It’s a story set in...
What Does It Take To Make Great Things?
In his 2008 bestseller Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell famously highlighted the 10,000 hour “rule.” The “rule” is that it usually takes 10,000...
The Heuristics Of Risk
Working with risk is complicated. If you work in law enforcement or the military, you’ve got spreadsheets and computers and checklists to...
Questions, Decisions and Leadership
I was consulting for a large company. The project was to tie the company’s data and analytics to their decision-making in a particular...
Good Data For What I Write Next
The Data-Analysis-Decision-Action process in A Spy’s Guide To Thinking isn’t static. It isn’t something you do one time. It’s born from...
Jordan Peterson, DADA and Games
Jordan Peterson has the #1 nonfiction book at Amazon for the fourth week in a row. As a clinical psychologist, he has insights into...
Taking Action To Generate More Data
This is one in a series of Spy's Guide book reviews. For more, see spysguide.com/blog Michael V. Hayden, Playing To The Edge As boss of...
"Tips From Spies" Interview On NPR's Planet Money
When you do an edited radio interview, you give up a lot of power. You sit and talk for a while. They ask questions. You answer them....
President Trump's Strategy Of Conflict
Scott Adams wrote this about President Trump's first week: "Here’s how the math of persuasion works in this situation: 1 outrage out of 3...
