The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy seeks to revive the study and practice of grand strategy by devising methods to teach that subject at the graduate and undergraduate levels, by training future leaders to think about and implement grand strategies in imaginative and effective ways, and by organizing public events that emphasize the importance of grand strategy.

The program defines ‘grand strategy’ as a comprehensive plan of action, based on the calculated relationship of means to large ends. Never an exact science, grand strategy requires constant reassessment and adjustment. Flexibility is key. Traditionally believed to belong to and best-developed in the politico-military and governmental realms, the concept of grand strategy applies—and ISS believes is essential—to a broad spectrum of human activities, not least those of international institutions, non-governmental organizations, and private businesses and corporations.

And Davenport is one of the smarmiest colleges, so..

(But I’ve got love for them both I’m just playing!)

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[Grand Strategy](http://iss.yale.edu/programs/grand-strategy) is one of the smarmiest Yale memes:

> The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy seeks to revive the study and practice of grand strategy by devising methods to teach that subject at the graduate and undergraduate levels, by training future leaders to think about and implement grand strategies in imaginative and effective ways, and by organizing public events that emphasize the importance of grand strategy.

> The program defines ‘grand strategy’ as a comprehensive plan of action, based on the calculated relationship of means to large ends. Never an exact science, grand strategy requires constant reassessment and adjustment. Flexibility is key. Traditionally believed to belong to and best-developed in the politico-military and governmental realms, the concept of grand strategy applies—and ISS believes is essential—to a broad spectrum of human activities, not least those of international institutions, non-governmental organizations, and private businesses and corporations.

And Davenport is one of the smarmiest colleges, so..

(But I've got love for them both I'm just playing!)

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Omg sorry but this is the apex of false consciousness. Colleges at Yale are 100% meaningless! The fact that three or four of them allegedly have a SLIGHTLY higher proportion of legacies does virtually nothing to affect their cultures. These are glorified dorms. Membership is entirely random. At Oxford and Cambridge, colleges really mean something – they have separate faculties and take separate applications. King’s College Cambridge, where I spent a year, felt like an actual community united by common tastes (gay) and values (communist). Branford College, to which I was technically affiliated for four years, was a totally imaginary construct.

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You don’t have love for GS be real with us

Here is an article I wrote on Grand Strategy in 2005:
http://www.yaleherald.com/pdfs/jan20/page11.pdf

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@Glazek – odd that you were in branford when your comment is SUCHHHHHHHH a morsel thing to say!!

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Velasco Ibarra was a great orator: in his political campaigns from town to town, he captivated people with his great eloquence, becoming a true leader of the masses. Velasco Ibarra once said, "Give me a balcony and I will become president."[1] José María Velasco Ibarra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Classic line

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...y[1] and the most populous in Western Canada. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English.[5][6] Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. The City of Vancouver encompasses a land area of about 114 square kilometres, giving it a population density of about 5,249 people per square kilometre (13,590 per square mile). Vancouver is the most... Vancouver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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#burn

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Das my hometown, ouch.

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Be realistic. it is not a corporate hq city, lacks in some areas of infrastructure, and has a far less deloped cultural and music scene than Seattle, rated at Beta-, despie its larger GDP and economy.

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very true I must admit

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Patterson is a developer at Red Hat who serves on the core team for Ruby on Rails, an open-source web framework. Despite the fact that its code is there for one and all to see, Patterson says, “Don’t fork Rails. You are not special.” ‘Don't fork Rails’: @tenderlove at Code Genius - Technically Brooklyn

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What he meant was “don’t do things that depend on implementation details in Rails' internals – use its public APIs”!

And it’s true! If you start monkey patching and alias_method_chaining and so forth get ready for an upgrade nightmare!

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...y to tell whether a writer will get spooked by knowing her process is fair game for her readers. For Graham, the venture capitalist, the idea that his whole process could be made public was too much. “Incidentally, I didn’t write any more essays using Etherpad because it was distracting thinking that people would be able to see everything I typed. When I write an essay, I’m usually so worried about whether I’ll be able to do a good job that I feel I can’t afford any distractions.” Watch Me Write This Article | FiveThirtyEight

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This is the core issue – draftback only works when it’s perceived as different from “standing over the writer’s shoulder”. But once people come to expect it, they’ll feel like someone is always over their shoulder! Maybe AO can handle that but I sure can’t!! (I’m nervous!!!)

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But Somers wants more: He wants you to learn from me. Which, good luck. Watch Me Write This Article | FiveThirtyEight

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Rarely does one see “which” used like this in the wild. I LOVEEEE doing it, I think Andrew picked it up from me… and, like many memes, I originally jacked it from GOOD OLD DAVID FOSTER WALLACE HIMSELF. Specifically this passage from IJ:

DMZ’s discovery was the tail-end of the B.S. 1960s, just about the same time Dr. Alan Watts was considering T. Leary’s invitation to become “Writer in Resonance” at Leary’s utopian LSD-25 colony in Millbrook NY on what is now Canadian soil. A substance even just the accidental-synthesis of which sent the Sandoz chemist into early retirement and serious unblinking wall-watching, the incredibly potent DMZ has a popular-lay-chemical-underground reputation as the single grimmest thing ever conceived in a tube. It is also now the hardest recreational compound to acquire in North America after raw Vietnamese opium, which forget it

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@all-up-in-technology @jsomers @andrew

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This is literally a universal meme that neither you nor DFW invented.

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@Glazek – ok NOWWWW i’m starting to see the branford come out!! sorry i called you a morsel i’ll never do it again!!!

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...e way, it took me nearly a week of half-hearted efforts to hone a thesis that felt compelling rather than perfunctory. Then it took another week and my editor’s prodding before I really got it right. It wasn’t until a few rewrites in that I understood that Somers wasn’t a full character in this article so much as he was its catalyst. Once I pared down his and Draftback’s origin story, the pace quickened; I got to the thesis faster and established the tension with more oomph. Watch Me Write This Article | FiveThirtyEight

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MASTERFUL NEG!!

Oh wow I wish I could have seen the look on James' face when he read this!!

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@jsomers – can you upload a pic of your face maybe? also: to me YOU ARE A FULL CHARACTER BUDDY! xoxo… rarsip girl

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James should work on his character tbh

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let’s go to the videotape:

http://embed.vidyard.com/share/F9mw_kPNsMvswkpDHnSiaw

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...s article, a piece from a FiveThirtyEight freelancer landed in my inbox — along with its 22,256 keystrokes. After a few clicks, I could watch that whole article materialize before me, free of charge. Is that my right as the editor, or does it violate some tacit agreement between the writer and me? As I researched this piece, I admit I glanced at a few pieces I edited years ago, and it felt like eavesdropping on a TED talker’s rants before he went on stage. I was used to the self-assured perfor... Watch Me Write This Article | FiveThirtyEight

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I think the answer is pretty clearly the latter in the sense that no one knows they’re sharing a document’s entire edit history when they share the document. It’s a pretty scary notion!

And in some sense it’s why PDFs, by being such an old-world / non-web technology, are actually kinda cool – when you send someone a PDF you know you’re just sending them a “photo of the document” – i.e., just the thing itself, no crazy edit history, etc.

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@jsomers

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A great question for the ethicist Randy Cohen! (I’m sure he would have given the same answer: don’t exploit someone’s ignorance to do something you wouldn’t want done to you.)

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MASTERFUL NEG!!

Integrate the suggestion into the annotation, keeping the contributor guidelines in mind.