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This is some of my most popular content from the site. It’s not comprehensive, but you should be able to start here, follow a few links, and find something you enjoy.

• Technology

• Information Security

• Happiness

• Creativity

• Philosophy

• Politics

• Culture

• Science

• Business

• Personal

• Miscellaneous

Technology ​

• My Tutorial Series

• The Real Internet of Things

• A vim Tutorial and Primer

• A tcpdump Primer

• A tmux Primer

• An lsof Primer

• An Encoding Primer

• Thoughts on the Future of the IT Field

• URLs vs. URIs

• List of Less Commonly Used Unix Commands

• A UNIX/Linux Permissions Refresher

• Positional Number Systems

• 9 Enhancements to Shell and Vim Productivity

• A Subnetting Primer

Information Security ​

• Vulnerability Assessment vs. Penetration Test

• How to Build a Successful Information Security Career

• Information Security Interview Questions

• Encoding vs. Encryption vs. Hashing

• Obscurity is a Valid Security Layer

• Introduction to Security Metrics

• The Diffie-Hellman Protocol

• Differences in SYN Packets

• The Birthday Attack Explained

• A Security/Obscurity Experiment

• How to Pronounce "Rijndael"

Happiness ​

• Want: A Disease Based in Low Self-Esteem

• Was the Last Time Your Last?

• Happiness: Creation vs. Collection

Creativity ​

• The Relationship Between Relaxation, Fun, and Success

• Powering Innovation with Inputs

• Algorithmic Learning

• Great Leaders Make People Feel Safe

• The Golden Circle

• Learning is an Integration Problem

Philosophy ​

• Meaning is an Illusion

• Absolute vs. Practical Free Will

• The Difference Between Pursuing Happiness and Pursuing Meaning

• An Evolutionary Explanation of Our Experience of Free Will

• Embracing the Illusion of Free Will

• Albert Camus’ Absurdism

• The Future of Happiness

• The Best Response to "Atheists are arrogant"

• My Only Shot at Immortality

• Interesting Analysis of Karl Marx’ Writing

• How to See If Your Morality Comes from God

• Outrageous Beliefs Are Not Equal to Claims They Are False

• A Letter to Religious Moderates

• Philosophy, Science, and Religion: Three Ways of Learning About the World

• 3 Reasons the Future Will Think Us Primitive

Politics ​

• America Needs a Prime Directive

• A Simple Answer to the Question of Whether Guns Make Us More or Less Safe

• Governments and Corporations Fail for the Same Reason

• How to Debate an Idiot

• My Current Thoughts on Gun Control

• Profit vs. the Middle Class

• The Problem With Free Markets and Core Services

• Socialism and Anarchy

• The Worst Mistake People Make in Political Arguments

• The Irony of Opposing Government Programs

Culture ​

• The Only Class That Matters

• 3 Trends for an Advancing Human Civilization

• The Bimbo and the Caveman

• The Steam, Water, and Ice of Modern Communications

• Lifecasting and Society

• Is it Wrong to Have Children?

• 10 Facts Every Westerner Should Know About the Middle East

Science ​

• How Airplanes Actually Fly

• Does Acceleration Depend More on Horsepower or Torque?

• The Craziest Thing You’ll Ever Learn about Pi

Business ​

• The Future of Work

• A Business Writing Primer

• TCA: Total Cost of Asshole

• 3-Phased Information Processing: The IT Meta-Skill

• Three Questions Successful People Ask

• My Favorite Book on Writing

• The King, the Sage, and the Cog

• The Concept of Open Allocation

• The Peter Principal

• The Best Interview Question

• The Three Tiers of Competitive Advantage

• Stop Being Proud of Complexity

Personal ​

• Two Things I Learned in My Thirties

• How I Became an Atheist

• Why You Should Treat C-Players like A-Players

• The Nice Guy Paradox

Miscellaneous ​

• A Coffee Primer

• Grammar

• Summaries of Books I’ve Read

• Quality is Subtle

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