And it's hard to think of a scandal that's more discordant with an image of focus and discipline than this one.
"Under what circumstances would an employee face discipline for a violation of Uber's privacy policies?" He gave Uber 28 days to respond to his questions.
Further practical and philosophical advice will be given about the discipline, ethos, and challenges of writing and the literary industry.
In fact, we are at this stage because of the discipline of our people.
John Fund, a commentator for the conservative magazine National Review, described the speech as "meandering and often bizarre", and said that Palin "clearly lacks the discipline for a full-fledged campaign".
About Bear Stearns, for which JP Morgan predicted $33bn of potential exposure, a former JP Morgan executive was similarly proud in 2008: "we were very pleasantly surprised to see that it was a very well run, tight operation with good risk controls and a risk discipline that was very similar to our own," he said.
One of the things Pooley enjoys about her discipline, she says, is that it allows athletes to be sociable even during events.
On the face of it this does not have a lot to do with the specialised mechanical discipline that is fast bowling, or indeed the career of Steven Finn, England's own talented, statistically prodigious man-of-the-moment-before-last, whose falling away from the front rank is one of the more puzzling base notes of a generally puzzling tour of Australia.
"They are a very good mauling side, so it's key that we keep our discipline and don't give away silly penalties so they can maul from the resulting lineouts.
The Germans approached the game with their usual phlegmatic sense of discipline and organisation, preferring Thomas Berthold to Wolfgang Rolff to give them extra width, pace and penetration on the right.
Self-education (or autodidacticism) requires the utmost discipline – plus curiosity.
