Jurgen Appelo, who runs the noop.nl: Managing Software Development blog, asked me if I’d answer some questions by email for his “5 Easy Questions” series. It was kind of a flattering request, based on the previous interviewees, actually. I had a good time answering the questions, and hope you enjoy the results:
http://www.noop.nl/2008/11/5-easy-questions-for-karl-fogel.html
Apparently Barack Obama has now gotten his first intelligence briefing.
Hearing that made me think of one of my favorite passages in non-fiction — this description from John Piña Craven’s book The Silent War of comparable briefings:
Whenever I participated in the presentation of similar briefings to new cabinet secretaries and undersecretaries, new presidents and vice presidents, and other [...]
Times Square, around midnight:
‘Nuff said.
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Barack Fitzgerald Obama
for President of the United States.
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