Be the best-prepared person in the room: briefings, pre-briefings, follow-ups

There is no excuse now not to be the most prepared person in the room: a briefing for you, a briefing on the people you meet, a follow-up after; what used to be overhead for a rare kind of person now scales, like publishing and communication.

Decided by. Nobody yet: a candidate for Dinis to read, comment on and decide (keep, rewrite, merge, cut, article first, later, not doing it).

Note. How Dinis prepares a meeting today, step by step, is an interview question (task 3); the meeting-brief workflow is the journalist's first hands-on article (task 4).

Where it comes from

Follow the rabbit holes Be the best-prepared person in the room (article)

What it answers in the 2018 book

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Where it goes

Chapter Facts, evidence and the record, part Direction and judgement (drafting); topic How to work with agents: briefs, voice, one shared state.

Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: Make fact-based decisions: think out loud and let the record check you, Ask to be corrected, and print the corrections with their sources, Question everything: a claim earns its status by being refutable, Questioning, and asking for the evidence, is one of the most important skills now, They care about privacy; Snapchat's best feature was that images disappear, Following a rabbit hole is now a prompt away; build the agents and tools that find where things come from, Provenance and explainability are how you disagree rationally, Managing information so that decisions can be made is what work is, What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds is now a brief and a feedback loop, Provenance is a graph: where a claim came from is a chain of edges back to its source, A graph is trustworthy not because it is right but because it is where users, experts and tests can correct it, Stale pages become false memories, so a memory must say where each thing came from and name its own errors.

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