Quick day trip yesterday to DC to meet with planner for next year's Davos conference. Steve DeAngelis sat in and we had a great talk.

Then Steve and I greet a U.S. News & World Report fellow doing a biz story, who came by to interview Steve for the piece.

I ducked out of that one, though, to keep a longstanding promise to finally return to the National Reconnaissance Office at the request of the director. Briefed an afternoon audience of a couple hundred in a nice, fancy, very secure auditorium.

You don't get rich briefing to government bureaucrats, but you may just change some minds. I must have had some impact, because suddenly all five versions of my two books climbed to below 70k on Amazon rankings.

As of a few minutes ago, the bargain paper PNM was under 4k, and the hard BFA sat under 7k. The regular paper PNM was at 54k and the hard PNM at 17k. And the newest one, the advance paper BFA, jumped from high-hundred-thousands to 67k. Pretty much all this was driven by the NRO talk, I am sure, which is nice to see.

And yes, I do check regularly.

Little payoff today, but hopefully big investment in tomorrow's thinking.

I was told the director was really intrigued with the whole notion of Connectivity-in-a-Box. So yes, the rebranding seems to work nicely!

Only bitch of the day: missed the direct outta Dulles, which was crammed beyond belief. Instead flew to Chicago and then home by 1am.

No fun, but always good to help out when you can. The Long War will be long, and that means multiple generations to educate...