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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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