The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Without reference to Boyd Sutton or anyone else of note. Rethinking the Concept of Global Coverage in the U.S. Intelligence Community Institute for Defense Analysis, May 2015
Pope Francis’ Climate Change Encyclical Just Leaked. Here’s What It Says. Humans are causing climate change, and there will be “grave consequences” if we don’t act fast, warns the pope. Pope Francis will this week call for changes in lifestyles and energy consumption to avert the “unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem” before the end of …
Is Time Running Out for Non Performing, Venture Funded Enterprise Search Vendors? Gee, impatient venture capital firms, grousing partners hungry for a payday, and agitated stakeholders, are these usually cheerful folks worrying about getting their money back with a hefty profit? My hunch is that some who wrote checks might be thinking about a vacation …
Below is a brilliant essay that shows how cartographic hallucinogenics can capture one’s Orientation and create an incestuously amplifying* decision cycle that disconnects a “policy” maker from real world. * Note to new readers: For an explanation of how “incestuous amplification” operates to disconnect a decision maker from the exigencies of the real world read my essay, Incestuous …
Modernizing Analytical Training for the 21st Century Senior US intelligence leaders are starting to doubt whether ‘experts’ are the best forecasters of emerging risks. Regina Joseph, however, has other culprits in mind. Familiar cultural and bureaucratic obstacles may be more to blame for the foresight training and analysis problems intelligence agencies face today.
Generalizations about Big Data: Hail, the Mighty Hadoop I read “A Big Data Cheat Sheet: What Executives Want to Know.” The hidden agenda in the write up is revealed with the juxtaposition of the source Social Media Today and the technology Hadoop.
Is (Human) Collaboration the Key to Big Data Progress? The article titled Big Data Must Haves: Capacity, Compute, Collaboration on GCN offers insights into the best areas of focus for big data researchers. The Internet2 Global Summit is in D.C. this year with many exciting panelists who support the emphasis on collaboration in particular. The …
