Increasing Creativity By Clearly Separating Your Input and Output Phases
I think a lot about creativity and how to maximize it, and one of my latest ideas has been to clearly define time you’re taking…
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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…
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…