I’m a big fan of the work of Tim Ferriss. While I haven’t quite managed the 4-hour work week yet (more like the 84), the dude is smart and has no fear of saying what many of us just think. In Outside magazine’s July 2011 issue, while promoting his new book “The 4-Hour Body,” Ferriss describes his opinion on human motivations:
It pays not to be puritanical with...
Chris Anderson popularized the concept of the “Long Tail” in his 2006 book “The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More“. In a nutshell, this concept means that there’s a statistical distribution of products, services, and so on, meaning most people or populations tend to gravitate to the 80% of whatever is available. The “long tail...
Writing a book has put a serious crimp in my time for many other things, blogging included. I was warned, I know. I’ll quit bitching now.
I did a presentation with Alex Hutton and Rich Mogull yesterday to kick off 2012 at IANS, and we talked about a lot of major trends and themes in our space today. These ranged from mobile security and “consumer-ization” of mobile devices to...
And NO, I am not talking about the great folks at Offensive Security. I KNOW they exist.
I had some great commentary and discussion on my last post, “Doom, Gloom, and Infosec“. Jericho rightly pointed out the ever-popular Charlatans page at Attrition. This could definitely lead some to feel a little despondent or at least irritated in this field. Asshats have a way of doing this....
I’m perennially happy. I am almost always in a pretty good mood, despite my inherent sarcasm and less-than-politically-correct approach. But I get the impression that many in infosec are not. Everyone is different, and I don’t want to stereotype, but I do run into a lot of gloomy folks. Why is the infosec profession so unhappy in general? I closed out the IANS forum in Chicago...
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