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Open source intelligence, conflict, the technology I build with, and the way people behave around all three. 12 pieces, oldest from 2023. Follow by RSS.

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2023

19 Mar

Data-Driven Is the Easy Part. An Honest Number Isn’t.

The analysis is rarely the hard part. The hard part is getting an honest number in the first place, and noticing the decisions you already cannot make because nobody wrote the field down.

Data4 min

Tell me what isn’t adding up

An operation that has outgrown its spreadsheets and phone calls, a system that says one thing while the business does another, or a security or OSINT question. I read every message myself.

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