People sometimes hire me to gather intelligence. That’s what spies do, so that’s what clients want me to do for them, too. At least, that’s what they think they want me to do. They ask me to get this. Or get that. If I can get it ethically and appropriately, I do it. No big deal. But often, I don’t. That’s because before I go out and get what people think they need, I ask some questions. If you’ve read A Spy’s Guide to Thinking, you know I use a simple diagram to describe int

"A large portion of contemporary academic work is an appalling waste of human intelligence that cannot be justified under any mainstream normative ethics." An academic paper abstract from PhD student Nathan Robinson at Harvard: In this paper, I take the position that a large portion of contemporary academic work is an appalling waste of human intelligence that cannot be justified under any mainstream normative ethics. Part I builds a four-step argument for why this is the cas