D.J. Gleeson·Jun 5, 2020What Law Enforcement Can Learn from the CIA…“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from…
D.J. Gleeson·Dec 24, 2018Committee Hearings and Policy ClarityThe Democratic Party’s Congressional wins in November create the opportunity for its members in the House of Representatives to do…
D.J. Gleeson·Mar 1, 2017“The Washington Post Test”One of the concepts that I often found myself confronted with while working as an analyst and manager of analysts at the Central…
D.J. Gleeson·Jan 15, 2017Give Me $4 Trillion Dollars. You Can Trust Me. Really.It sounds like the beginning of an incredibly audacious Kickstarter campaign, doesn’t it? Regardless of how great any idea is, we are…
D.J. Gleeson·Sep 18, 2016My Journey to a Smart(er) HomeThis past summer, I started an experiment of sorts at my brother’s house: like many other people, I bought an Echo and a starter kit from…
D.J. Gleeson·Feb 1, 2016Reflecting on Oz: Life After the CIAI decided to resign from the Central Intelligence Agency late last year.A response icon2A response icon2
D.J. Gleeson·Nov 14, 2015“Disruption,” Innovation, and the Art of the PossibleA few months back, I read Frank Diana’s “Future Thinking,” an article that continues to sit with me (and one that I recommend to you): at…
D.J. Gleeson·Oct 21, 2015Big Data is Not What It WasIn 2001, Doug Laney wrote a paper that represents, and continues to be recognized as, the conceptual underpinnings of “big data.” It…
D.J. Gleeson·Sep 16, 2015The Office of Whacky Analysis: Whale Song and Deep LearningEvery organization should have an Office of Whacky Analysis: a place where data, information technologies, and expertise-based critical and…