Children Are Not a Rescue from a Lack of Meaning in Your Life
I often challenge people to describe why their lives have meaning. In most cases, the answers are deeply unsatisfying, both to me and to the…
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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, mathematician, physician, scientist, musician, designer,…
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 and blocking malicious executables downloaded…
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. Worse than that, they have…
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 the next exit, and picked…
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 happiness, since it doesn’t exist…
Programming Atrophy
It’s stunning to me how stale one can become when they don’t code for a while. I just put together a quick little something in…
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 rather boring at this point.…
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 of the universe. As beings…
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 “legitimate” the leads were. Obviously…
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 under open allocation. Important and…
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 heard about other people reacting…