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The Importance of Team Culture Alignment

The Importance of Team Culture Alignment

Every team has a culture, whether you define it intentionally or let it form on its own. It can be magical when a team has aligned on culture from top to bottom. Understanding h...

The Middle Path of Planning and Reflection

The Middle Path of Planning and Reflection

Thinking about the future or past is an important practice, but we must be careful to not to take either too far. Buddhists call this the Middle Way or the Middle Path. Taking a...

On Giving Advice

On Giving Advice

A friend of mine, Arvind, writes a blog called “myotherramblings.” It’s a place where he can write about anything he’d like to. Recently he wrote a post on The Dark Side of Advi...

Emergency Preparedness During Coronavirus Frenzy

Emergency Preparedness During Coronavirus Frenzy

In the midst of Coronavirus frenzy I decided to bring up a blog post I’ve been slowly writing for some time now. I am what I would consider a tentative “prepper” I like to be pr...

Mind Map Your Life

Mind Map Your Life

Recently there have been a lot of things going on in my life. So many that I started to find it difficult to keep track of everything. I needed a way to organize my thoughts so ...

Start With the Hard Part

Start With the Hard Part

I like Seth Godin’s blog I recommend you check it out. He writes daily, so it can be overwhelming, but there are really some good nuggets in there.

Introducing ReThink Security

Introducing ReThink Security

Recently Jason Taylor and I started a new side project, ReThink Security. The purpose is to share the insights that we’ve built up over the past two decades in the security indu...

Newsletter & Recommendations

Newsletter & Recommendations

Recently I’ve noticed that I prefer to receive updates from my favorite blogs in email. If you feel similarly I’ve signed up with Mailchimp to deliver my posts via email. Of cou...

Take a Moment

Take a Moment

There are very few things in life that require an immediate response.

Who Do You Want to Be

Who Do You Want to Be

There are many questions that you can ask yourself to help frame the person you want to grow into. These questions can be standard ones like “Where do you see yourself in 5 year...