I thought this was where Sundance was going and it’s PATHETIC. Not that he’s wrong but this is all long known and a given IMO. Sundance is a legend in his own mind.
No disagreement on that, but I’ll leave judgement aside til after the jury is in. Anything that helps is to the good.
Do large organizations get compartmentalized and do silos of information exist? Yes, absolutely. In my career in a large (Fortune 100) company I had the opportunity to work across business unit boundaries on many occasions, and saw this constantly. Sometimes those I interacted with were also eager to exchange info of mutual benefit and find synergies, others just couldn’t wait to retreat back into their comfortable shells. We knew there was no one looking at the organization from a 50,000 ft. level, so when opportunities to work across business lines was found, we knew it was up to us to elevate and champion them.
I doubt that similar enthusiasm exists in any branch of government, most especially not in those charged with “avoiding politically-derived info”. The safe course is to put on blinders and only “know” what you have personally discovered and ignore everything else. I think Sundance is an egotistical ass but if he’s helped to remove those blinders then more power to him. Instead of criticizing him I’d like to see more independent researcher/bloggers doing that instead of just bitching about Twitter messing with the number of followers and making endlessly boring YouTube videos.
Agreed 100%.