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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://saturation.social/users/clive/statuses/111625246947595983">Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 02:37:25 JST</a><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive" title="clive@saturation.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/21777-48-20230219204149.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Clive Thompson" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Clive Thompson</a></section><article><p>The CIA's 1944 guide to disrupting meetings</p><p>Honestly, it reads like stuff you see pretty regularly at civic and company meetings 😅 </p><p>(Technically it was written not by the CIA but by its predecessor organization, the OSS)</p><p>Item #7 in my latest Linkfest newsletter, free to read here: <a href="https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-15-altruistic-pigs-the-truetown/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-15-altruistic-pigs-the-truetown/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2487616#notice-4921700">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-12-23T02:37:25+09:00" title="Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 02:37:25 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/111625246947595983" rel="external" title="Sent from saturation.social via ActivityPub">saturation.social</a></span></span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/111625246947595983">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2004622">Screenshot of text reading: ‘General Interference with Organizations and Productions’ is bang on: Make “speeches” – Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Slow it down – advocate caution, avoid haste. Where possible refer all matters to committees (never fewer than five) for “consideration”. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.</a></label><br><a href="https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/111/625/245/489/033/949/original/cac41c8bde42c4d8.png" rel="external">https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/111/625/245/489/033/949/original/cac41c8bde42c4d8.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: buttondown-attachments.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com</div><h5><a href="https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-15-altruistic-pigs-the-truetown/">Linkfest #15: Altruistic pigs, the "Truetown Discharge", and the CIA's guide to wrecking meetings</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Welcome to the latest edition of the Linkfest! "The opposite of doomscrolling", as I call it 😅 Thank you for subscribing -- and if you’re enjoying it, spread...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 02:37:25 JST Clive Thompson
The CIA's 1944 guide to disrupting meetings
Honestly, it reads like stuff you see pretty regularly at civic and company meetings 😅
(Technically it was written not by the CIA but by its predecessor organization, the OSS)
Item #7 in my latest Linkfest newsletter, free to read here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-15-altruistic-pigs-the-truetown/
In conversationabout a year ago from saturation.socialpermalink
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1. Screenshot of text reading: ‘General Interference with Organizations and Productions’ is bang on: Make “speeches” – Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Slow it down – advocate caution, avoid haste. Where possible refer all matters to committees (never fewer than five) for “consideration”. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
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  Linkfest #15: Altruistic pigs, the "Truetown Discharge", and the CIA's guide to wrecking meetings
  Welcome to the latest edition of the Linkfest! "The opposite of doomscrolling", as I call it 😅 Thank you for subscribing -- and if you’re enjoying it, spread...

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