Does News Consumption Destroy Creativity?
I don’t know a single truly creative mind who is a news junkie – not a writer, not a composer,...
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How Google Uses Reputation Data to Improve Security Across Its Properties
Google researchers have combined a number of reputation techniques to create a system that is 99 percent successful in detecting...
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Insurance Companies Make U.S. Healthcare Expensive
Because insurers are paid a fixed percentage of the claims they administer, they have no incentive to hold down costs....
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My Friend Writes Like This
A bird hit my windshield on the freeway, on the way home from work this morning. I pulled over on...
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What This Site is About
And when I say “this site”, I’m really saying “me”. Existentialism: How to create our own meaning and our own...
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Programming Atrophy
It’s stunning to me how stale one can become when they don’t code for a while. I just put together...
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The Simple Economic Reason I Prefer Apple to Google
The iOS/Apple vs. Android/Google debate has been explored for years by thousands of people. We know the arguments and they’re...
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Albert Camus’ Absurdism | Daniel Miessler
In absurdist philosophy, the Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual’s search for meaning and the meaninglessness...
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Building a Domain Reputation API
I thought it’d be useful recently to take a list of email addresses, say from sales leads, and determine how...
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Four Types of Project | Daniel Miessler
If we classify projects into four categories by important vs. unimportant, and interesting vs. unpleasant, we can assess what happens...
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Interesting Analysis of Karl Marx’s Writing
I’ve not read much Marx. What I know of his work reduces to knowing what others think about what they’ve...
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The Idiotic Irony of Opposing Equality for Homosexuals
In all the opposition to equal marriage rights for homosexuals I find only one possible line of legitimacy. That line...
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