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Josh Steinman: The Cyber Precipe

From the New World

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How to Write a Memo in High Stakes Context

The final often the final paragraph That gets communicated in most memos really should be the paragraph. I think a lot of people Find themselves contending with fear When they're writing And so they feel like they have to Pre-justify things or Exhaustively Describe the disclaimers, you know, don't do it. Just put it right up front You know the United States should X You should X This was a White House memo I'd probably get half that space If I'd been at the White House I probably would have worked on it for another month before it was ready and it's two pages It's not tight. So Okay, let's No, no, do you have do

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