Information I Am Consuming and Learning
This Week I’m Reading, Consuming, Learning:
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| Joy Advent Talk | - |
2032-W47
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| Brain Food Alignment | I do “gamefilming” a reflection and review process that I gleaned from Stagen. I have a few other process and systems that I use to think, connect concepts, and learn. I love this paragraph. |
| 3 Brain Hacks For When You Can't Focus at Work | Optimization tips that may initially seem counter-intuitive but are actually super helpful to increase productivity. |
| The Barbell Method of Reading | I have been thinking a lot about this topic throughout this year. I made a goal for the year to read 12 books. That is sort of a vague, unhelpful goal. I could skim 12, 10-page books and achieve my goal without generating anything, changing anything, or gleaning value. Or, I could read a lot more, then actually process a couple/few good books, and do something with the takeaways. Change, create content, whatever. |
| Second-Order Thinking What Smart People Use to Outperform | Think beyond immediate consequences of potential action. What are the second, third, … outcomes of a decision. Chesterton’s Fence. Chesterton’s Fence A Lesson in Second Order Thinking. |
| Chesterton’s Fence A Lesson in Second Order Thinking | The initial choice or decision could have been absolutely terrible, insignificant, great, whatever it doesn’t really matter. What matters is even if it was a terrible decision, it may have a significant impact if it is changed. We must consider impact or consequences before blinding changing things. Chesterton’s fence. You have to know or at least consider why the fence was there in the first place before removing it. |
| The Cybersecurity Resilience Quotient Measuring Security Effectiveness | Apply holistic risk management for resiliency |
2032-W46
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| All Online Writers Know They Need These 3 Systems To... | Read, take good notes, schedule, publish daily. |
| Can We Engineer a Perfect World Tyler VanderWeele & Steven Pinker | Humanity, dystopia, utopia |
| Being ‘Nice’ Can Actually Hurt Your Career. Do These Three Things Instead | Be kind, not nice. Huge difference. Stop people-pleasing, which has been my focus the last couple of months. |
| How to Lower Your Heart Rate Before Public Speaking | Great tips to lower heart rate and relax before speaking |
| Willard Renovation of Heart | Cultural confusion about humanity being the culmination of heart, will and spirit. |
| The Evolution of Ransomware Lessons for the Future | Ransomware triple and quadruple extortion techniques |
| Superlinear | Discipline equals freedom - Jocko Willink Extreme Ownership - Nice vs kind seems to be a theme this week. |
| On Corporate Life | Do great work; keep perspective. |
| Adult Life | Doing the fundamentals, the most boring drudgery, is often the most important. True for baseball, work, security, playing musical instruments, really all things. |
| Ep. 2 — Perry Metzger Makes the Case for Unrestricted AI Development | AI and the economy. It will not remove work, but transform it. |
| Extremely Serious Attack on ChatGPT | ChatGPT security issues |
| Why 8 Hours of Sleep Is Terrible Advice and What to Do Instead | Helpful framework to optimize sleep |
2032-W45
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| A System for Clear Writing [3 Tips] | 3 Simple but helpful tips for better writing |
| Cultural Apologetics | Excellent book on defending Christianity. |
2032-W44
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| Biblical Critical Theory | This book bridges that gap, showing how the Bible’s storyline from Genesis to Revelation helps us build a full-orbed Christian theory. My prayer is that Christians come away equipped and emboldened to show how the Bible speaks with an engaging, insightful, and often surprisingly fresh voice into the great social and cultural issues of our day. I’d love people to be energized not only to explain the Bible to the culture, but also to explain culture through the Bible.” |
| Week 9 Teaching | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts |
| Week 9 Acts 9 - 11 Workbook | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts |
| A System for Winning Any Argument [8 Logical Fallacies] | Document NotesEfficient steps to prepare for a debate. |
| Going Beyond MFA How Okta Is Redefining Enterprise Identity | Okta improvements |
2032-W43
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| Best of — How to Spark Creativity in Your Communication | Frame conversations and storytelling |
| Week 8 Acts 9 Workbook | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts |
| Week 8 Teaching | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts |
| David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought | Interesting podcast. Still processing. DBH is obviously intelligent. Agree on some of his points. Unsure on some. And, disagree with others. Touches on topics aligned with The Soul, meteaphysics, religion in general, Christianity, the Bible, and more. |
| Week 7 Acts 8 Workbook | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts |
| The Soul - Notes | Notes on the book The Soul |
2023-W42
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| How to Double Your Productivity in 3 Simple Steps | Find optimum times for me to work and split sessions into 90 minutes of deep focused time (Pomodoro 2.0) |
| A System for Finishing Your Day Strong [Evening Routine] | Great tips to be the most productive tomorrow |
| Week 7 Teaching | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts |
| Running Toward Danger Featuring Darin Kinder | Get your suit dirty for Jesus |
| Friday Forward - Tribal Nature | Non-conformity |
| How to Read Your Bible. | Encouraging article for Bible study |
2023-W41
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| Simplify! How to Communicate Complex Ideas Simply and Effectively | Authenticity, logic, empathy |
| Be an Answer Guide, Not an Answer Man | How to walk along kids and coach, not necessarily hand feed them answers |
| How to Think Fast Before You Speak Framework Thinking | Build a library of frameworks with concepts. Connect frameworks to speak well on issues. Frame the conversation. |
| ATHI — An AI Threat Modeling Framework for Policymakers | Excellent threat modeling framework |
| 9 Tactics to Build a Stronger Mind Lisa Genova | Tips for memory improvements. Some things we might think are cheating, like writing it down or Googling it, are actually helpful for us. Stress is bad for our memory. Meditate, be mindful, be playful. Meditation can be simple 4 second breath in, hold for a second, 4 second breath out. Relax. |
| How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader Without Burning Out | Many good things came from the shift to servant leadership, but noble purpose ends co-dependency and creates a shared vision. The change from what do you need from me to what do you need to be successful? More of a coaching or mentorship approach and less people-pleasing. |
| Intelligent vs. Smart | Be kind. Think independently. Write well. Fantastic article filled with a lot of great advice. |
| The Apostle Paul Acts 8-12 | - |
| Week 6 Acts 6 Workbook | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts |
| Week 6 - Teaching | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts |
| How the Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio | Insanely good description on the economy. |
2023-W40
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| Fooling Ourselves | I struggle with imposter syndrome hard core. This is a great reminder. I constantly have mentors, friends, other executives reassure me; I need to believe in myself. I do, but when in front of other senior leaders, I often defer. “Marketing to others begins with marketing to ourselves.” Great quote. |
| Already Unique | I have a huge desire to write and share knowledge and ideas, but often struggle with the thought that nothing is unique or original. Sure, I have heard the “no one has said it in your voice” argument, yet it never feels original enough. But, this paragraph, said this way, may have finally made it make sense. |
| Remarkable Leaders Are Alike in One Powerful Way | Authentically unique. Similar to another story from today. Uniqueness must be a common theme for the day. Be different and confident in the person that you are and the values you hold. |
| Week 5 Teaching | Teaching Acts 4 and 5 |
| How to Break Free From People Pleasing and Speak Your Mind | Very good tips to stop being a people pleaser |
2023-W39
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| Brain Food Busy vs. Productive | Busy is not productive. Laser focus and effectiveness matter. Cut dead weight of business and be extraordinarily productive. |
| Choose to Hug New Ideas Before Killing Them | Exploring new ideas, questions, agree and disagree well. |
| Week 4 Teaching | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts 3 and 4 |
| Acts | Renamed the original so it was easier to find, this just synched again from Readwise. Commentary on Acts. |
| Week 5 Acts 4_23 - 5_42 Workbook Section | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts 4-5 |
| The Written Word | Just write. There are some rules that are helpful but wow what you would like to read. Write a lot and have fun. |
| MWBS Bible Study Template | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts |
| Week 10 Acts 12 Workbook | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts |
| Week 11 Wrap Up | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts |
2023-W38
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| Week 3 Acts 2 Workbook Section | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts 2 |
| Week 3 Teaching | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts 2 |
| Elevate Classics — Keith Ferrazzi on Competing in the New World of Work | Don’t fall back into broken pre-COVID work systems that were not effective. We also can’t just port old activities into new systems. There is a better way. |
| David Heinemeier Hansson's Radical Approach to Entrepreneurship | AI censorship and entrepreneurship |
| From Corporate Job to Solopreneurship - Insights From Building My Mentorship Business | Circle back to the resources mentioned in this article. The article itself is helpful for perspective in launching solo consulting efforts. |
| Personal Privacy & Security for CISOs | Probably need to circle back to this article a few times. Definitely review the original. There is too much information to simply highlight here. Security and privacy must work together. But, even then, would that be effective without significant infrastructure, contextual, and philosophical changes. |
| How to Build a Personal Brand | How to build and sustain a personal brand. Most importantly, be authentic. |
| Don't Be Afraid of AI — Your Fears Are Unfounded, and Here's Why | Lots of positives, especially, if AI goes more open source, I think. The most concerning part for me. Who “owns” the LLMs and content being fed into AI. There will certainly be a market-leader. “The Victors write the narrative” is more than frightening here. |
| Upgrade Atomic Thinking to Holistic Thinking | A thoughtful piece on engaging knowledge management systems and how to glean the most insight and benefit from them. From atomicity to concepts and ideas. |
| The Surprising Source of Unintended Toxicity | You have influence and are much more intimidating than you believe. Use care and caution with your words and tone. Be a humble leader. |
| Harness the Power of Curiosity in Personal Knowledge Management | A new approach to engaging with my PKM with curiosity using SNACK. Helpful tips in joyfully building knowledge and leveraging my PKM. |
2023-W37
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| A System for Beating Procrastination [Four Quarters Method] | I like this idea a lot. My quarters would be broken up a bit differently, but overall this seems super helpful. |
| The Great Bifurcation | This article is spot on. Like the author, I do most of the things well, but not “Instagram perfect.” I especially struggle with the last point, but working on it - creating instead of consuming. See the model in the original article. |
| Exploring the Value of Microsoft 365 Multi-Tenant Organizations | Should companies do T2T migration or MTO - T2T still win for the moment |
| Proverbs | 30-day Devotional |
| James Clear Journaling Prompts | Helpful journaling prompts from James Clear |
| Parenting Hacks Part 2 More Tips and Scripts From a Hacker Dad | Some very solid parenting tips. Revisit this often. From different approaches at different stages, to role playing to understand better how to handles situations, to the myriad of benefits in engaging in housework, and rapid-fire tips. All helpful. |
| 3-2-1 On Having Enough, the Power of Books, and a Recipe for Success | Just start! |
| Over 56,000 Corporate Microsoft 365 Accounts Targeted by W3LL Threat Group | Microsoft365 MFA bypass AiTM |
| Radical Candor — the Communication Shift That Can Transform Your Career | Care and Challenge - the four quadrants of political behavior |
| Best of — Using Skills From Improv to Master Your in-the-Moment Communication | Excellent podcast on communicating and challenging. Dare to be dull, obvious, have fun, be yourself. Be present. Use what is in the room or in a previous conversation. Ask good follow-up questions. |
| From Good to Great The Transformative Influence of Executive Leadership | Data loss = hair loss cartoon |
| 3-2-1 How to Do Hard Things, Being Resourceful, and the Value of Simplicity | What you focus on during an activity determines the difficulty or joy. Positive or negative. |
| Week 2 Acts 1 Workbook Section | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts 1 |
| Week 2 Teaching | Readwise highlights MWBS Acts 1 |
| How to Take Smart Notes | - |
2023-W36
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| Brain Food Surface Area of Luck | Increase your surface area of luck. And, distractions, even minor, meta, seemingly good ones distract from the goal. Make sure you have clarity on your goals and get good at saying no. |
| 2023-09-03-Acts - Global Missions | We need God to take initiative. |
| Key Cybersecurity Tools That Can Mitigate the Cost of a Breach | Ways to reduce the cost of a data breach |
| Generative AI in Video and the Future of Storytelling | Runway - text to video AI |
| Grow and Give Discovering the Path Forward | Be intentional and show up on purpose and with a purpose in all that you do. Frame things appropriate. Grow. Give. Influence. |
| Respect and Admiration | Nobody really cares about your house, car, clothes, etc. That is not where your true value lies. While I also disagree with where the author's target value lies - in your name, what you have achieved, his point is similar. Our value and worth lies in our identity. My identity is defined by my Heavenly Father who created me, not from what I have accomplished. Matthew 6:19-21 are helpful verses. |
| Week 1 Acts 1-12 Workbook Section | Intro for the semester |
| Answering Children | How should I pray? The number of books, articles, etc. that I have consumed on the topic is staggering. Like many things, I’ve over-complicated prayer. Just talk to your Heavenly Father. |
| How to Change — Building Better Habits and Behaviors | Podcast - importance of framing in goal achievement, storytelling, and effective communication |
| Making Change Management Mindful (Part 1) — Leading Change and Preventing Fatigue | How to implement change management in organizations - 4 part podcast |
| Making Change Management Mindful (Part 2) — How to Manage Change | How to implement change management in organizations - 4 part podcast |
| Making Change Management Mindful (Part 3) — How to Effectively Communicate Change | Implementing change management in the org - 4 part podcast series I'm going to go back and listen to |
| Making Change Management Mindful (Part 4) — How to Train and Engage Employees in the Change | How to implement change management in organizations - 4 part podcast |
| Redound | Redound is a formal word that when paired with to means “to have a particular result.” |
| EQ Applied Use the Difficulty | Use the difficulty. EQ tool. Similar to find the silver lining. Helpful questions. |
2023-W35
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| Brain Food Completely Obsessed | Man, I have thought this for a long time. Let’s build better incentives to get them to do their jobs better? Want an incentive to do what we hired you to do? You are not fired yet. I’m all for bonuses and stuff, but you signed up for negotiated and fair salary. On the flip side, focus on creating value daily. |
| Lessons Learned From the Microsoft Cloud Breach | DHS performed a lessons learned exercise following the China Storm breach. What they found was improved IAM and identity security would have prevented it. The steps and capabilities identified and outlined are exactly what we are trying to do with Okta. See this link https://www.ibm.com/products/verify-identity |
| Want to Effortlessly Boost Your Memory, Learning, and Cognitive Skills Neuroscience Says Embrace These 5 Simple Habits | Changing your mind on thinking is not a sign of being wishy-washy, but updating based on the new information available to you. — Jeff Bezos and Adam Grant |
| Leading a Workforce Empowered by New AI Tools | How should companies drive value and reduce risk with AI |
| 3-2-1 On Being Bigger Than Your Problems, Personal Responsibility, and Inner Circle Friendships | Maintain appropriate perspective when confronting issues and or problem solving. Stay outside of the situation. Maintain perspective when starting things, trying things, you are not the thing. Life is still great even if that fails. |
| Warriors Who Love Featuring Aaron Born | Manhood conversation and the realities of masculinity. |
| When I Have a Slower Publishing Cadence My Blog Grows Faster | Think well, optimize writing for greater clarity and concise thinking. |
| Make the Impossible | A ridiculous AI tool that can generate video from text or an image. Mind blowing potential. |
| Friday Forward - Passing Bucks | Good article of the bureaucracy of processes resulting in “not my problem” and general lack of problem-solving initiative in many. A simple solution overlooked and buck-passed resulting in terrible optics and inconvenience for an airline customer. Is it possible to have solid processes and “permission” for employees to take initiative and solve customer problems? |
| Why You Need a Relationship Dashboard | Need to follow-up on this article. It is a subscriber only post. I have something similar to this, I think, but want to check it out more. |
| Spraying the Microsoft Cloud | Why I’m not confident in the IAM M365 security. |