All The Presidents MenCarl ; Bob Woodward Bernstein
All The Presidents Men
by Carl ; Bob Woodward Bernstein · first published 1976
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…about that hypothesis. It's a great book but it's more about how projects are products of organizational structures. It's a Pulitzer Prize winner. I'm still waiting for a movie to be made about it. An "all the presidents men" of the 80s minicomputer market. If only I had infinite time, energy and money; the things I'd do...
on “Settings are not a design failure” ↗When people tell me the Russians deliberately plotted to crash the Smolensk flight, I ask them to read https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/all-the-presidents-men-t...
on “Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting” ↗…Deep Throat, aka Mark Felt (1970s). He got away with it for more than thirty years, until his family convinced him and Woodward / Bernstein to open up just before Felt's death. The only clues were from All The Presidents Men and the information revealed (though mostly it was double-checked) in newspaper articles, and even then the book included some red herrings. Given today's newspaper is no longer tomorrow's fish-wrap…
on “Mark Salter, embittered McCain aide with "writer's block," wrote "O"” ↗