The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.

Something that is very hard to describe to junior staff is you should not let your employer take advantage of you, but you should also take advantage of them in training yourself for your own career. You have front-line tickets to a real network. A blessing most don't have.

You can start over at any time. At any age. You have more choice in control in your life than you’ve been told. Most of our limits exist within our own thoughts. Thoughts are not truths.

Over the years Microsoft DART has put together an immense amount of valuable information about preventing, detecting and responding to threats, from blogs to forensic guides. They are all now available to you in one spot via their very own Ninja Hub - aka.ms/MicrosoftIRNin…

The computer will not save you.

You should have experience setting up fail-safe architectures. You don't need new stuff under warranty to do that. Frankly, if that's your motivation you NEED failure. Don't avoid it. My data loss years before saved me a decade later. We are all the product of trials by fire.

The most inspiring thing I've read this year. Read it three times, it will change your life.

Wednesday check-in

Cognitive security is now as important as basic literacy. Here’s a true story: All week I’d been getting texts and calls from a family member – let’s call him Bob – about how his sentient AI was wanting to get in touch with me. I figured it was one of Bob’s usual jokes. It was

I started in help desk. Most of us did. There's no shame in it and I'm here to tell you why so you can reframe your thinking if you are in that role and are feeling kind of down about it. You start out in help desk for a few reasons. 1. To learn how to think critically and

Career advice everyone needs to hear:

The real reason you're tired all the time: It's not your workload. It's your open loops. The text you haven't answered. The apology you owe. The decision you're avoiding. The conversation you keep postponing. These run in the background of your mind all day, draining your

The most important skill in the 21st century is the ability to live happily with uncertainty.

I need you to sit down for a moment and fully understand this: THE COUNTRY THAT SOLVES AI AND ROBOTICS WILL RULE THE WORLD AND SPACE. The west really only has Elon Musk, the east has 100s of companies fortified by an ENTIRE COUNTRY. Now some will argue no this is not true. No

Lessons learned are quickly forgotten unless they were learned in terror, or sorrow, or shame. Wisdom can always be rented for free, but it must be purchased with pain.

she stood at the edge of the cliff with her crow. the waves from the ocean down below.

There is a lot of difference between the CCNA that doesn't open Wireshark and the Helpdesk that does.

ICE COLD FACT 💎 Don’t compare your Life to the ILLUSION 💥

If you aren’t getting happier as you get older, you’re doing it wrong.

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.