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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.

Mental Diet and Exercise

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

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.

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Create/Publish Scripts

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

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

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

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,...