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...
Mental Diet and Exercise
Recently I noticed an old pair of pants were a little tighter than I remembered them being. It was easy for me to jump to the conclusion that I either needed to accept my new fo...
Asking for Help Part 2 - Alerting
I realized in my first part of Asking for Help that I didn’t put a fine enough point on some of the points I should have made when asking for help.
Create/Publish Scripts
In order to make creating and publishing quicker and easier I created a couple of little shell scripts to help me along my way. I have a hard time remembering all the little swi...
Specialize or Do Not Specialize
In my industry I’ve found that you can be successful by committing to being a specialist or by committing not to specialize. People stumble, struggle, fail, or get burned out wh...
Delegate Then Do
Being a manager is difficult. It’s sometimes difficult to know what tasks you should do yourself and what you should give to your team. I’ve adopted the Delegate then do methodo...
Project Success
This diagram is an approximation of how I think about iterating toward a goal to increase my likelihood for success. There are a few concepts that I’ve packed into this diagram,...