Will We Need Analysts in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?
Last year I attended the Association of International Risk Intelligence Professional’s (AIRIP) Fall Conference on the future of public- and private-sector intelligence, where the future” part dealt primarily with the tools available to analysts today and with the...
Everyone Gets Writer’s Block!
If you’ve never had trouble starting, making progress on, or finishing a writing project, then this blog post isn’t for you. Also, please introduce yourself and tell us your secret, because I’ve never met anyone who could say this. For most of us, especially those of...
Keeping Your Writing Concise
Anyone whose professional responsibilities include writing, from analytic reports to memos and even emails, could benefit by seeing what they write as reading assignments they give to their busy customers. In such cases, wordiness is a cardinal sin, as that customer’s...
When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Get a Master’s Degree
As someone who teaches and advises students in graduate school I get asked by a lot of students about whether they should get a master’s (or a Ph.D.). I take this question very seriously because going to graduate school is one of the most important decisions a young...