Interview Learnings from Former CIA Intelligence Officer

Sorting society into consumerist pawns that are ‘used’ by some sort of first mover elite is intellectually convenient (albeit inaccurate) but in a ‘2005ish Pre-incel pickup artist’ self help website kind of way, which is to say it creates a dichotomy that is intellectually lazy and trite.

This guy perfectly exhibits the two main kind of ex-mil you see. Type #1 people who fall victim to the military industrial complex and think their allegiance is anything other than a convenient quid-pro-quo to the elite,they go on to become CIA shitbags and other pawns.<p>The other are those who after seeing the belly of the beast,want nothing to do with it other than be left alone or help people escape the horrible beast the federal government has become. They have seen the murders first hand, and rejected the premise.

Just the first few notes conjure an image of a slimebag. That kind of person that is only attentive if there is a personal gain to be made.<p>Sometimes they&#x27;re astoundingly obvious and oblivious to the obviousness. I wonder why that is?

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Missing is the repeated attempts to describe algorithms, and how social media platforms like Tiktok &quot;actually&quot; work. It&#x27;s one thing to talk from experience, it&#x27;s another to talk about experience.<p>On second thought, maybe it was inferred from the section Detecting Lies.

&quot;there are two kinds of people...&quot;<p>&quot;For you to be a step ahead of everyone else just do an action, any action, and you’ll already be ahead of everyone. &quot;<p>This sounds like it was taken from the episode of the office.

I read as far as this being based on an interview with the Diary of a CEO guy. No thanks. He’s a terrible interviewer who doesn’t care about the topics, he asks questions just relevant enough give the appearance of him being at all interested but there’s nothing of substance. Similar to his career it seems. I’d rather listen to ChatGPT interview someone.

This honestly sounds like early 90s NLP (neuro-linguistic programming, a pseudoscience, not the modern-day NLP which means something else) self-help books. Repackaged stuff for cartomancers and cold readers.<p>I would guess the real CIA loves these guys. This kind of talk would be the perfect misdirection for the real thing.

I find it upsetting the word &#x27;learnings&#x27; is replacing &#x27;lessons&#x27; in corporate speak. The term is ugly and uncouth to me and lessons is far more suitable and appropriate in this context. It would be like if school was starting to be spelled with a k.

I hate the Verbing of Nouns.<p>There&#x27;s a perfectly cromulent word for things people have learned, they&#x27;re called &quot;lessons&quot;.