@edsu Hi Ed! About the SI open launch? LOL! I haven't had a chance to really consider the product and direction yet — the decisions made and not made — but I *have* been thinking about the patient work of my friends and colleagues there, and how lucky SI is to have them... I've also…
@edsu …had three thoughts rattling around my head.
The first is something I picked up somewhere that one job of thinkers, intellectuals, in society is to keep ideas alive and well nourished so that when decision makers are finally ready for them they are healthy and strong. When I…
Dec 31, 2019 • 13 tweets • 20 min read
(Looking through my notes and research on this last day of 20-frikkin-19. Of everything I read this year {written this year nor not}, these articles, threads, and stories took me someplace new. My own personal pantheon)
1. The Spy who came home: Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.
By @bentaub91, New Yorker, May 7, 2018 issue