Academy

The method, and what it will not do.

1. 1The Method8 min · 1 video
2. 2Where to Work6 min
3. 3The Seven Rules7 min · 1 video

Claims, evidence, the five states, and calibrated confidence.

1. 1Claim versus Evidence8 min · 1 video
2. 2Observation, Inference, Hypothesis9 min
3. 3The Five States10 min
4. 4Confidence and Calibration8 min · 1 video
5. 5Four Hypotheses and the Falsifier9 min

Premises, base rates, probability language, and the errors that survive good intentions.

1. 1Premises First9 min
2. 2Base Rates and Denominators10 min · 1 video
3. 3Confirmation and Motivated Reasoning9 min · 1 video
4. 4Probability Language9 min

Where information came from, and how much confidence it deserves.

1. 1Primary Sources and Custodians8 min · 1 video
2. 2Lateral Reading10 min · 3 videos
3. 3Independence and Laundering9 min · 1 video
4. 4Photos, Video, and Data10 min · 2 videos
5. 5Click Restraint and Revision7 min · 1 video

How perception is shaped, and how to hold the line.

1. 1The Attack Surface Is the Decision Pipeline9 min · 1 video
2. 2Six Techniques, Six Defenses12 min · 1 video
3. 3Money, Advertising, and Ownership10 min · 3 videos
4. 4Feeds, Algorithms, and Social Media10 min · 2 videos
5. 5The Individual and the Processor9 min

Pick the lens that matches the live problem.

1. 1How Lenses Work7 min
2. 2Perception, Integrity, Observation10 min
3. 3Outcomes, Stress, Models10 min
4. 4Gaps, Rules, Time10 min
5. 5Synthesis Without Erasure8 min

Take real content apart: fact, opinion, framing, omission, and SI authorship.

1. 1The Fact Ledger10 min · 1 video
2. 2Two Outlets, One Event12 min
3. 3SI-Written Content10 min · 1 video
4. 4Everyday Influence8 min · 1 video

From the Massacre through the Army, with the date on every claim.

1. 1The Boston Massacre and the Rule of Law12 min
2. 2Partial Repeal and the Tea Principle12 min
3. 3Gaspee and the Committees of Correspondence12 min
4. 4Tea Party and the Coercive Acts14 min
5. 5First Continental Congress13 min
6. 6Militia, Minutemen, and the Contest for Powder13 min
7. 7Lexington, Concord, and the Siege13 min
8. 8Congress Builds an Army13 min
9. 9Bunker Hill and the Case for Taking Up Arms14 min

The founding charters, the Union, the territories, and the militia of record.

1. 1The Founding Charters10 min · 2 videos
2. 2The Union and Senate Equality9 min
3. 3The Territories9 min
4. 4Militia and Guard9 min

Public-source investigation: legal, ethical, documented, and repeatable.

1. 1Scope and Ethics8 min
2. 2Where Records Actually Live10 min · 1 video
3. 3Place and Time10 min · 1 video
4. 4The Verification Log9 min · 1 video

Reading people the disciplined way: baselines, needs, elicitation, and the hard limits of the research.

1. 1Baseline Before Interpretation10 min
2. 2Needs and the Fears Behind Them10 min · 1 video
3. 3How Decisions Get Made9 min · 1 video
4. 4Elicitation, and How to Notice It11 min
5. 5The Limits of Reading People10 min · 1 video

Seven stages, from the written question to a finding you can check.

1. 1What an Investigation Is9 min
2. 2Commission: The Question and the Boundary8 min
3. 3Baseline: What You Already Believe10 min · 1 video
4. 4The Hypothesis Set and the Matrix11 min
5. 5The Finding: Likelihood, Confidence, Falsifier10 min

Preserve first. Then find out whether it is what it says it is.

1. 1Preserve Before You Analyze9 min
2. 2Four Questions for Any Piece of Content10 min · 2 videos
3. 3Geolocation and Chronolocation11 min
4. 4Source Grading Without Self-Deception8 min
5. 5Deception, Convenience, and the Too-Good Source9 min

Volatile data, defensible timelines, and attribution that does not outrun its evidence.

1. 1Acquire Without Destroying10 min
2. 2Timelines That Survive a Hostile Reader10 min
3. 3Structures for What You Found9 min
4. 4Attribution Discipline11 min
5. 5Passive Research and Its Limits8 min

The documentary spine, the control structure, the interview, and the legal edge.

1. 1Working the Record10 min
2. 2Public-Records Law as a Tool9 min
3. 3Control, Money, and the Shape of a Shell10 min
4. 4Interviewing to Gather, Not to Win11 min
5. 5Harm, Legality, and the Investigator10 min

SI literacy: what the machine saw before you trust what it said.

1. 1Models, Agents, and Tools9 min
2. 2Retrieval and Provenance10 min
3. 3Routing, Memory, and Limits9 min

Not what it is. How to use it, what it does wrong, and what never to paste.

1. 1What You Are Actually Talking To9 min
2. 2The Ten Moves11 min
3. 3How It Fails, and What Each Failure Looks Like12 min
4. 4What Not to Paste8 min
5. 5CPU Discipline: Where the Work Runs10 min

How one person is selected, worked and drained — and the controls that hold while you are tired.

1. 1The Shape of Targeting9 min
2. 2The Five Mechanics11 min
3. 3The Payment Asymmetry10 min
4. 4Structure Over Vigilance9 min

What awareness is once the folklore is removed, and the structure of the law you are assumed to know.

1. 1Removing the Folklore10 min
2. 2What Is Actually Visible About You9 min
3. 3Space, Then Words9 min
4. 4The Structure of the Law12 min
5. 5Recording, Consent, and the Record10 min

Phones, accounts, encrypted messaging, exposure, and children.

1. 1Threat Model Before Tools9 min
2. 2Accounts: The Part That Actually Gets You11 min
3. 3Phone Discipline10 min
4. 4Encrypted Messaging, Honestly11 min
5. 5Files, Disks, and What to Do When It Goes Wrong9 min
6. 6Exposure: What a Stranger Can Find9 min
7. 7Children, Without the Theater12 min

Two layers of money. Emails that do not overlap. Credit for purchases. Debit for the ATM.

1. 1Two Layers, Not Ten Banks8 min
2. 2Who Never Sees the Home Set7 min
3. 3Emails That Do Not Overlap8 min
4. 4Credit for Purchases, Debit for the ATM8 min

What deters, measured rather than asserted, and how an outage injures people.

1. 1The Door Is a System9 min
2. 2What the Deterrence Research Actually Found11 min
3. 3How Outages Actually Hurt People12 min
4. 4Backup Power and How Long This Lasts10 min

Shielding physics against shielding marketing, radio that works, and what neighbors do.

1. 1What the RF Science Actually Says10 min
2. 2Shielding: Physics, Uses, and Claims10 min
3. 3Radio That Works, and the Closing Scanner Era11 min
4. 4Neighbors, and What People Actually Do9 min