Michal Shapiro is a good friend of this blog, longtime reader and occasional mentor. She just joined Wikistrat because we want her analytically sharp but artistically infused perspective, which she shares regularly in a blog at HuffPo. Why? We don't want Wikistrat to simply replicate the closed society of intell/consultants from the real world. We want breadth, so that means subject matter experts from around the dial so blind spots in thinking are rooted out ("Has anybody ever considered . . .?") in the simulations we pursue.
Michal is an amazing artist (one of her paintings hung in Don Draper's office in "Mad Men" - and now hangs in my home office thanks to her gift) and turns out to be an amazing singer too, as this video shows.
"Up the Spout" (thanks, Occupy Wall Street) from Michal Shapiro on Vimeo.
Find it to play here at Vimeo.