Basically, you can’t. Well, unless the other person happens to like–and have knowledge of–art, wine, or cheese. Imagine saying to someone who doesn’t care for art that a painting in a museum is “better” than a painting at Target. What exactly does better painting mean to a person who doesn’t like art? Precisely nothing. Or imagine going to…
Archives for April 2011
A Social Media Security Model
I am often asked how I handle handle security while using social networks. This post serves as my answer in image and bullet form. I make a strong, explicit distinction between private and public mediums, and I control posted content to each accordingly. I only post location information to private networks, e.g. Foursquare doesn’t go to my blog…
Levels of Awareness
I think there are two primary levels of awareness possible for modern humans. There are those who don’t think about why they want what they want, and there are those that do. I am not speaking, of course, about why one prefers Thai food over Korean food, or any other trivial preference, but rather why we seek friendship,…
Burp Intruder Payload Methods Explained
If you use Burp a good bit you’ve likely run into the question of what precisely the various Intruder Payload Methods do. Specifically, what are the differences between them? To refresh the memory, they are Sniper, Battering Ram, Pitchfork, and Cluster Bomb. The manual has good explanations, but somehow nobody remembers them. So here’s my own quick summary…
Ideas Suck: A Tale of Lust vs Love
Ideas suck. Ideas are everywhere and pop into our heads all of the time. Ideas are not the inspirational spark that ignites us into becoming startup entrepreneurs. We only ever need one of them and the rest suck because they do nothing more than cause noisy distractions. I hear new ideas every day. Usually pitched by enthusiastic, slightly…
iPhone vs. Android: The Porsche and the Winnebago
We’ve heard a thousand such analogies, and they generally suck. Perhaps this one will suck slightly less. Getting right to it, the iPhone experience is like a porsche. The Android experience is like a Winnebago. The idea here is not that iPhone is “better” or “worse” than Android. Those words don’t mean anything unless you completely synchronize on…