Category: Current Affairs
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I haven't formed deep opinions or thoughts at this point. I am just putting down a placeholder. More information: Wikipedia on DOGE Wikipedia on Current Appointments (President Trump's 2nd Term)
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For some odd reason, I was recently self-motivated to consider rewriting the 1964 Sharon Statement, which has been central to my political and economic thinking since I first read it in 1986. I used a few Grammarly and Google Docs linguistic and grammar suggestions, plus some of my values and…
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I recently presented the following presentation at Manager-Tools.com's M-Conference 2024.: "From The Dark Web To the Boardroom: Cybersecurity Strategies from 15 years of attending DEFCON" (PDF presentation download) These are all the links I referenced in my presentation: https://www.technewsradio.com/2024/09/defcon-32-2024-notes-references.html https://media.defcon.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu https://www.wired.com/story/russia-gru-unit-29155-hacker-team/ https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/malware-service-top-threat/ https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/02/02/ddos-attacks-h2-2023/ https://www.nsa.gov/Podcast/ https://stpetecatalyst.com/local-cybersecurity-firm-we-hired-a-north-korean-hacker/ https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/malware-service-top-threat/ https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/02/02/ddos-attacks-h2-2023/ https://www.hivesystems.com/blog/are-your-passwords-in-the-green https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/most-common-pin-codes/…
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I am a big fan of Cal Newport's Deep Life podcast. One of his monthly goals is to read at least five books, which he then covers in his podcast. Fellow podcast fan Bram Adams (bram@bramadams.dev) has created a database of all Cal has read here: Cal’s Five Books of…
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Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko Here is an update to my 2023 plan. This year, I am reading and journaling about the following two books as part of my daily morning routine: “Truth For Life: 365 Daily Devotions” by Alistar Begg “The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the…
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Just like last year, I have created some downloadable PDF files of "continuous" calendars for 2024: Vertical version (PDF) Horizontal version (PDF) I hopefully did the conversion from 2023 to 2024 correctly. It was especially tricky since 2024 is a Leap Year. If you find an error, then please let…
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Back in this episode of Cal Newport's podcast "Why You're Always Tired & Exhausted (No Matter What You Do)," there was a funny ad read that Cal did for Jesse Skelton. It was funny enough that not only did I try to make an audio version of Jesse Skelton saying…
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I have been curious about the differences between artificial intelligence (AI) image creation tools, and I saw this prompt on Midjourney in the daily theme thread: Pixar, Beautiful Korean queen focus on front with smile, Hanbok, blue, red, gold, elegant, gorgeous, cute cats, queen of the pink moon, hyper realistic,…
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I think Cal Newport has done his homework on this topic, and I found his conclusions solid. Here are three additional recommendations I have for "effective" mobile device use: Turn off all notifications. Only add back the critical ones like: Text messages from family members, key home automation alerts, local…
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Photo by Frank Holleman on Unsplash In a recent episode of Cal Newport's The Deep Life Podcast — Episode 238: The Joys Of The Reading Life — Cal provided his well-thought-out ideas on how to have a deep reading life and how that intersects with our digital technologies. I agree…
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