Incubating startups: The secret to being a great spy agency in the 21st century

We're all here chatting and discussing from the offices of some of the most significant offices in the world... performing functions that affect literally billions of people worldwide.

I've been thinking a lot about the wealth of brilliant and near-brilliant, and sub-brilliant-but-still-very-clever brains here on HN. Wondering what sort of opinion shaping we are subject to... how we might notice it... and what it means for society that we're all here thinking and changing minds together.