Thanks!
Accepted a job offer. I am now at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies working on Energy Security. Working with a verya smart and capable group of people. (Working hard just to keep up with them.) Lucky to be able to align interests with paychecks.
Sincere thanks to everyone who helped with the search. Lots of invaluable advice, leads, and support. Moved to and started working in the Washington, DC area today and would be more than happy to buy anyone in the area (or visiting) drinks.
Gujjars: Very Interesting
Normally don’t crosslink, but the Gujjar’s are using some pretty brilliant tactics for a totally grassroots movement trying to race to the bottom to gain socialistic benefits. Check it out.
Don’t Hire Strategic Energy & Economic Research Inc
If this is the kind of analysis of oil prices they’re putting together, you’re better off filling up your gas tank than paying them a single dime. This at the beginning of any article:
Certainly, a political disruption of oil supplies — civil war in Nigeria, major fighting in southern Iraq, attacks on Caspian pipelines — could occur and would send prices sharply higher, but overall there is a greater likelihood that prices will drop in the next few years, and perhaps sharply.
Should result in an angry letter to the author.
Security Clearances Book?
Is anyone working on a book on the topic? Plenty of this Spies for Hire doom and gloom stuff, but haven’t seen anything that gets to the crux of the issue.
You could slice the market open and lower prices by streamlining the process and making clearances ubiquitous. Lot more competition results in better services for tax payer dollars. We’re never going to ramp up to a Cold War type CIA again (and shouldn’t).
The modern case officer will be the same as the old: the guy who can get the right contracts for intel to the right people. Except this time, falling out of a plane won’t be a prerequisite, and the contracts won’t be verbal.
Review: Increo’s Backboard
Lets you upload a document, picture, website for review (only lets users leave blog-like comments).
Could be potentially 10x more useful if it had a whiteboard overlay layer on it. Let a team mark up and manipulate the content. Could be a great tool for creative types, but is currently castrated.