E15: Insight on Cue

Former CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence, Carmen Medina returns to The Collators to discuss her new project capturing the hard-won lessons, adages, and mental cues that help analysts think better.

The conversation is a deep exploration of what analysis actually is. What happens between reading and writing? Is insight something that can be taught? Are analysts too focused on argument and not enough on thinking? And how do our tools, categories, filters, emotions, and intuitions shape what we are able to know?