January 8, 2026

All conversation is an interplay of signal leaking and signal jamming.”

-Sovrumano

You play games. You know what tells are. And if your competition leaks them, you make plays off of them. Sometimes you go for it and sometimes you know to avoid that hand or round of play.

Cool. But in the world of intelligence the stakes are higher–higher than any other profession–usually billions of dollars at stake or hundreds of thousands of lives. Sometimes much, much more than that is at stake.

A lawyer may explode in anger if you cause him to lose a case by horsing around when he’s trying to work but an intelligence agent will torture you if you cause him to screw up on his job because the stakes are just too high.

So, I’ve got a lot of money. I don’t want you to know. But you work for Acme Intelligence and your job is to find out. How do you do it? What do you look for?

I’ve given you details before like with the eyewear and sneakers example of a silicon valley guy who is otherwise in jeans and a t-shirt. But this time I’m going to give you a few other prinicipals to run on:

Pattern, Context and Baselines.

Once you know what those are for your prospect, you can look for deviations from them. To hide something will probably require an augmentation of their behavior.

“Cool. Like what?”

If I were trying to hide wealth then I would likely try to downplay any affluence you might spot or normalize it.

*Overjustifying modest purchases

*Avoiding specifics about money

*Downplay or normalization of expensive property, “Oh, this old thing? I’ve had it since forever.”

*Becoming uncomfortable when someone discusses financial hardship that they are suffering

*Pretending to be counting My pennies when making a purchase; angst at the cash register’s printed receipt!

In the wealth category, you’ll look for inconsistencies in language, behavior and purchases.

Ok, how about…information?

I’m glad you asked that one grasshopper! It shows that you are really paying attention and that you have information that you need to extract from someone. You’re an agent!

*Answering to fast or to slow. To fast means rehearsed and to slow means trying to stay consistent or improvising

*The story is to concise. It’s neat. It lacks real lived experience when communicated.

*On the other hand it can be too detailed. We all know liars who are really convincing because that schizophrenic motherrfucker just lays it on thick, does he not? It’s not just a story about the biggest fish ever caught at the lake but the mofo has details about the women watching him from the shore and what they were wearing and what she said to him and what he did with her after that and on and on and it’s all bullshit.

*Some experts say they may pause before key words when relaying information. Subjects such as who, when, what time, how and so on may provoke them to think more so then to remember when answering you.

*They don’t ask what you did on your vacation. They prefer to…

*Avoid the subject altogether and may change the subject when it’s brought up.

Did you get something today?

If you’d like to have a guest speaker at your next meeting, hit Me up. We can discuss this subject for an hour and we’ll cover this terrain and maybe a little more.

Nothing beats people in the field who have to do this sort of thing all the time.

Have a great day.

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Did you know that over the course of 30 days you will get more value from this then you will from most textbooks? Daily bite size chunks and 24 hours to practice it until the next lesson will do wonders for you.

And if you want to make a tip to keep a good thing going–go for it. I’ve had people hand me a dollar and I’ve had people hand Me $20. Yesterday someone handed Me $13. But it doesn’t matter what it is because everything helps to keep us online.

Thank you.

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