# Insight on cue: Interview with Carmen Medina

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Podcast: [The Collators](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-collators-7459521)
Published: 2026-06-14T16:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://thecollators.com/s2e15
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Duration seconds: 3800

## Resource

Carmen Medina, former CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence, returns to The Collators to discuss her new project capturing the hard-won lessons, adages and mental cues that help analysts think better. The conversation becomes a deep exploration of what analysis actually is. What happens between reading and writing? Is insight something that can be taught? Are analysts too focused on argument, and not enough on thinking? And how do our tools, categories, filters, emotions and intuitions shape what we are able to know?

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