Fayad K. Hassan
Essays and field notes
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.
2023
9 Apr
Society5 min
19 Mar
Language5 min
19 Mar
Data4 min
In Sudan, ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Is the Wrong Diagnosis
The Western cure for conspiracy belief is more critical thinking and media literacy.
Society5 min
19 Mar
What Language Decides Before You Do
The strong claim, that your language decides what you can think, is dead and deserves to be.
Language5 min
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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