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🔒 I got to announce that I’m expanding my team today. Feel free to refer people or apply! #ProdSec #AppSec
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See where a drop of water goes.
This is a cool way to visualize watersheds.
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🔒I’m creating a product security letterloop.
If you want to join (free for you), message me privately with the email you want use.
Note: other members will be able to see your email address and team newsletter answers: that’s part of the point.
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“Adversity is such a wonderful teacher”
-Jyotirmoy Sarkar, sharing his story today 🕊
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I appreciated this episode of the Peter Attia Drive as their latest masterclass in insulin resistance.
The consistent advice is to cut out fructuose and reduce glucose (simple carbs) until in tolerance.
But exercise really does matter. It affects how muscles dispose of glucose.
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Beautiful Trouble updated their toolkit.
With the new toolkit you can slice and dice depending on what you are considering, and also create pdfs from your favorites.
This is a nice online companion to the deck of cards.
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🔒 Opinion: the OWASP Cheat Sheet Series is the most underappreciated OWASP project.
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📚 Finished reading: The End of Alzheimer’s by Dr. Dale Bredesen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Recommended. Even though I am not at higher genetic risk, I’ve ordered this book as a reference, due to the depth of cognitive health information included.
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Before you post out pithy quotes today, try to understand more fully what King fought for, instead of using his own words to soften his points.
Then, together with the Beloved Community, wage nonviolence against the triple evils of poverty, racism, and militarism.
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I was restless this morning and up early…so I started to pull together my accumulated notes on sleep: here in my digital garden experiment
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2020: Nonfiction 📚 Review
To view other 2020 review posts (including fiction, feeds, newsletters, and magazines), visit the main post here. I rea... -
2020: Project Review
To view other 2020 review posts, visit the main post here. Outside of work, I had several projects this year. Frankly, ... -
2020: News & Magazines Review
To view other 2020 review posts, visit thee main post here. Newspapers and News Magazines I tend to prefer “slow ... -
Response to @joshuapsteele re: books on hand
Winners:
- Regenerative Agriculture
- NET Bible with full translation notes (mine is 1st ed. but I’d get 2nd now)
- How to Invent Everything - (my micro review)
- Common Prayer
- SAS Survival Handbook - (mine is 2nd ed. but I’d get 3rd now)
Honorable mentions:
- Mushrooming without Fear - (I am still a newb and have fear)
- Lo-TEK
- BSA Field Book - (mine is earlier edition, so I’d get 2014 now)
- Low-Tech Magazine (2012-2018)
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Preview of the complete minimalist day/adventure/survival-pack for @lukeforis @odd @pilchuck
It may look bulky, but this is a small pack and very light.
(Pack is the Osprey Daylite)
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2020: 📺 & 🎥 Review
To view other 2020 review posts, visit the main post here. When it comes to screens, I prefer to do something that requi... -
Resilient 📚 Review: I Am Not Your Enemy by Michael T. McRay
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Highly Recommended
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Experts: Gobble All You Like, But Do It With The Turkeys In Your Own Household)
And if you are getting together:
“do pickup of groceries, rather than going grocery shopping in the store”
“Making sure you’re practicing really good hand hygiene”
“if you can get tested, you should”
“A 14-day quarantine period could prevent transmission — especially for asymptomatic cases.”
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As Trump’s creditors hope to salvage more from his outstanding obligations, these last months of the presidency could be even more swampy than the rest.
So: let’s help each other endure the death throes of this administration. Practice compassion. Engage in mutual aid. Offer sanctuary and healing. Make plans and build support systems for a freer, healthier, brighter future.
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How military veterans are answering the call to defend Black lives
- via Waging Nonviolence
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Masks are such an easy, powerful way to reduce the number of lost lives, both directly from the virus, and indirectly from financial impacts. Wear them, please.
Universal Mask Wearing Could Save Some 130,000 Lives In The U.S.
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#DearKiddos: A Vaccine for Cruelty
#DearKiddos: I was reading this article today from the Economist: “No Vaccine for Cruelty” (image). It’s about ho... -
📚 Now Reading: Lo-TEK Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson
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📚 Now Reading: Regenerative Agriculture by Richard Perkins
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You may have heard me talk about watersheds, before. In this post on Resilient, I share how to identify a watershed, and propose a thought experiment of considering watersheds as our political unit.
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published on #Resilient: Ethical Explorer Pack
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Resilient: Landlord Tech Watch
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Canada’s last intact ice shelf breaks up
“Since 2007 the mean temperature in summer has flipped from below freezing to above it. The consequences will be felt far beyond the north.”
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Yet another good reason to wear a mask: “Homeland Security fears widespread mask-wearing will break facial recognition software”. Help your fellow humans.
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Added How to Invent Everything to my #Resilient booklist. 📚 I love this book so much. Informative and hilarious. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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As someone with an interest in insect protein (for issues of sustainability and ethics) this talk from the Long Now was very interesting to me. 🎙
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I still have a ways to go, but did some good work on my Resilient booklist this morning.
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Another great one from James Clear
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Here’s a great podcast intro to Restorative Justice, includes shoutouts to Howard Zehr and Mennonites, which is, unsurprisingly, how I got introduced to the concept in a more concrete way.
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✝️🕊🏴🌹, in that order
Let me share some of my labels, or identities. Let me share some of my beliefs. You’ll note that I say “in ... -
What are you yearning, learning, and hoping for?
This was our question in church this morning, and this was my response: I’m thankful that the Lord of Flies is wr... -
Dr. Erin Bromage - “The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them”
This well-written and detailed post helps clarify the riskiest exposure cases. It seems like our focus has been too much on surfaces and not enough on shared breathing spaces.
Please mask up and avoid the riskiest scenarios.
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This is one of the best podcast episodes I’ve ever heard 🎙. I took many notes and will be organizing them to produce a writeup at Resilient.
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Waging Nonviolence published 7 things to do instead of hoarding toilet paper. Good list!
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Coping with Covid a writeup at Resilient
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what will happen when the crisis passes?…it’s worth asking yourself now…how you might change your behavior….But it’s also worth asking if we are willing to allow governments and corporations to return to business as usual.
from America Is a Sham
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Thinking about the confluence of quarantine, Lent, spring break, climate change, & other events.
What have you been learning and evaluating about your rhythms, habits, priorities, & schedule? Are you finding things that weren’t necessary, aligned with your values, etc.?
What’s been harder? What’s been easier? What’s important to you?
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I started Cal Newport’s 📚 Deep Work and it has me pondering something.
As expected (since I really enjoyed Digital Minimalism), though I have just started, I am appreciating the book. However, his early focus on productivity is concerning to me. Often, we think of productivity as the One True Measurement ™ of success, and I’m not sure that’s right.
While effectiveness (towards whatever goal(s) you set) is important, it leaves out factors such as quality, value, repeatability, learning, etc. You could argue that we should build those into the measurements of productivity, but I’d argue we often don’t.
Perhaps my disagreement is due to me being philosophically less of a consequentialist and more of a deontologist or virtue ethicist. In my way of thinking, it’s better to do right with less immediate output than to crank out good output that may be short-sighted.
What about you?
edited to add: Cal addresses this a somewhat when he gets into “busyness” being a (bad) proxy for “productivity”.
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Another great decision-making question from James Clear’s newsletter:
“Will this cost me time in the future or save me time in the future?”
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When information is crowdsourced, new avenues of manipulation arise. Consider this hack of driving directions as an example.
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Software Assurance Maturity Model v2 is live! #appsec #OWASP #SAMM #OpenSAMM
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burning by Lunarbaboon
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4 Values
I was meeting with one of the folks that I mentor/coach today, and they started a great conversation around ikigai. That... -
Recently finished 📚 Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Recommended for complex vertical/psychological development. Good companion to The Map by Keith M. Eigel & Karl W. Kuhnert. Immunity is more promotional but also has more how-to guidance.
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I liked Malcolm Gladwell’s 📚 Talking to Strangers, but I liked this podcast of him talking about the topic even better. He was more cutting, witty, etc. Great dynamic between Ezra and Malcolm on the show.
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‘King was arrested 29 times in his short life. Many of those times, he was charged with “disturbing the peace.”’
From “Why we need to move closer to King’s understanding of nonviolence” from Waging Nonviolence.
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What are the tech companies that are doing the most harm? What would be your top 5? Here is Slate’s list.
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“The kingdom of heaven is in a basement”
Parables of the Kingdom: a poem from Isaiah Lewis from Mercy Community Church it Atlanta, Georgia.
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2019 🎙 Review
When I’m commuting, doing chores, taking a walk, or even playing open-world video games, I often listen to spoken... -
2019 📚 Review: Nonfiction
Overview I set a goal of reading 63 books in 2019, which was a 10% increase over 2019. I met this goal exactly. I have ... -
📚 Micro-Review: _The Power of Habit_ by Charles Duhigg
📚 Finished The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ This book is mostly useful narratives that introduce the fact... -
📚 Finished Power of Now by Echkhart Tolle. ⭐️⭐️
- 2/3 useful commentary on consciousness
- 2/3 bullshit & misused quotes
- And if you’re saying “hey, those don’t add up” you’re beginning to understand the book
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Awesome new shirt & bag for sustaining members of Waging Nonviolence, along with the description behind each icon.
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We’re seeing more like this, and it’s excellent subversive action like Jesus’s examples of: turning the other cheek, carrying the extra mile, or stripping off and giving your clothes. Church nativity scene puts the holy family in cages.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Finished Reading 📚 How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- There’s promise in psychedelics for treating mental illness & addiction
- Psychedelic results are affected by the intention & context of use
- Meditation & the Overview Effect have related results
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Did you (or are you planning to) engage in an alternative activity to Black Friday and Cyber Monday? Please share. #OptOutside #BuyNothingDay
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I added a new resource to my Security Thinking for Big Data reference. “A Practical Way to Include an Ethics Review in Your Development Processes” from Laminar Group.
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Links for Resilience #5, with “Coercion-Resistant Design”, horseshoe crabs, seaweed for cows, and more.
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Sunday quote courtesy of readwise:
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Fort Collins Mennonite Fellowship regains the right to provide storage lockers to homeless in their community. What if more Christians fought for the ability to help people, instead of the ability to harm them?
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TIL: Indianapolis has the second highest number of evictions, second only to NYC (statistic courtesy of Eviction Lab and Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis)
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Who’s surprised these newfound alt-right free speech warriors aren’t coming to the defense of meat-alternative producers? “officials in nearly 30 states have proposed bills to prohibit companies from using words such as meat, burger, sausage, jerky or hot dog”
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The latest Links for Resilience newsletter is out, featuring stories on Security, Sustainability, Society, and Self.
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I’m back from #GenCon19, so I released a podcast about Games! Available now for subscribers of Resilient.
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#GenCon2019 Day 1
I started GenCon off right by going to the gym before opening ceremonies! I am happy of myself! When the expo hall opene... -
How to tie any knot: Animated Knots
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“Life Tip: when deciding whether to keep something, imagine it as a human friend.” from SMBC
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Clever idea:
I started a “stress note” in my Notes app where I keep a list of whatever I’m anxious about. Anytime I add something new I reread my past worries and if they no longer matter (which is usually the case), instead of deleting them I apply the strikethrough style. There is something very calming and self-affirming in doing this, and as the list grows I actually find it very beautiful to look at.
from Cool Tools
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Have any of you already played Bloc by Bloc?
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Churchwide Statement on the Abuse of Child Migrants passes near-unanimously (2 of 495 dissent) #MennoCon19
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“Immigrants Avoiding Deportation at Churches Face Big Fines” A couple of these sanctuary churches mentioned are Mennonite churches. #MennoCon19
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#MennoCon19 Delegate Report Day 1
Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 I arrived early (very early) to Kansas City, with plenty of time to get registered and... -
As I read this post about “Calm Technology”, an annoying subscribe popup happened right as I got to the “annoying notifications” spot on the chart. There’s also an obnoxious banner running through the whole article. Unacceptable. Change has to start with oneself.
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Happy Juneteenth. May we never give up on freedom and justice.
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I had some folks ask for more details about my Digital Declutter experiment. That podcast episode is now up for subscribers of Resilient. #resilient
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Confronted with the reality of a monitored world, people make the rational decision to make the best of it. That is not consent.
Another great essay from Maciej #resilient
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🔗 Links for Resilience #2. Reading for security, society, sustainability, and self.
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for Resilient, I interviewed Curtis Brazzell for his Kickstarter project “M is for Malware”. Check it out!
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My latest Resilient newsletter is out: Links for Resilience, where I share articles, quotes, and comments about security, society, and self.
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First podcast up: “Where do you normally get your news?”
- Show (subscriber only)
- Show Links (public)
- First 50 full responses here get a free membership
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“If I were wrong, what would I see?”
Great question from Margaret Heffernan on the Knowledge Project.
I also like the distinction between “power as orchestration” and “power as domination”. Lots of good items on this episode.
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You kill the prophets, and stone the people sent to you
Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, and stone the people sent to you! How many times did I want to collect you... -
Join us tonight at OWASP Indianapolis! I am reprising my talk about about Big Data and AI Security. #owasp #ai #security #bigdata #indianapolis
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Digital Declutter: the Plan
If you read my review of Digital Minimalism, you’re aware of the Digital Declutter process. If not, head over to ... -
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this Global Youth Learning Framework from Institute for the Future. #Resilience #Learning
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This episode of the Knowledge Project has even more great parenting and development insights than the last one I shared.
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Excellent episode of the Knowledge Project: Peaceful Parenting. I’m not a parent and I still got a ton out of it.
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Accurate: Life Online
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Digital Minimalism: Reference and Review
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Note: I wrote about my own experi... -
First change I’m making due to Digital Minimalism: going through my many Slack instances this morning and leaving all the channels that don’t have needed info for me, and are instead just chatty rooms. #DigitalMinimalism
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“Solitude Deprivation: A state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds.”
from Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
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Google has shared ClusterFuzz.
“ClusterFuzz is a scalable fuzzing infrastructure which finds security and stability issues in software.”
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"Drama"
It’s definitely a warning sign when I hear someone complain about “drama”. The usage of “drama” ... -
Just added to Security Thinking for Big Data: the Algorithmic Justice League.
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Another approach to app Threat Modeling: Threat Modeling as Code
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Last chance to register for my talk re: Agile Security and DevSecOps
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Come join me next week? Northside Meetup: Agile Security and DevSecOps w/ Todd Grotenhuis - Meetup
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Schneier: How Surveillance Inhibits Freedom of Expression
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Cool new resource: An ethics checklist for data scientists. I’ve added it to my Security Thinking for Big Data list. #security
