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- Technology
- Information Security
- Happiness
- Creativity
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Culture
- Science
- Business
- Personal
- Miscellaneous
Technology
- My Tutorial Series
- The Real Internet of Things
- A
vimTutorial and Primer - A
tcpdumpPrimer - A
tmuxPrimer - An
lsofPrimer - 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
- On Spending Time With the Opposite Sex
- 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
- Generalists Aren’t
- 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
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