Add Women to Groups to Make Them Smarter
There’s some fascinating new research showing that adding women to a group of problem solvers makes them more effective. The reason is clear and unsurprising…
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Bertrand Russell’s Essay: What I Believe
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” ~ Bertrand Russell Jun 12, 2011 I just re-read What I Believe by…
Hashing vs. Encryption vs. Encoding vs. Obfuscation
There is often significant confusion around the differences between encryption, encoding, hashing, and obfuscation. Get the TL;DR Let’s take a look at each one: Encoding…
How to Build a Just Society
I was re-reading a part of Moral Landscape this weekend and came across a concept I had not shared yet. It’s the idea of building…
The People Making the Best Arguments Against College, Went to College
If you frequent Hacker News and Reddit as I do you’re probably familiar with a certain type of rant regarding college. It goes something like…
Burp Intruder Payload Methods Explained
If you use Burp a good bit you’ve likely run into the question of what precisely the various Intruder Payload Methods do. Specifically, what are…
Levels of Awareness | Daniel Miessler
I think there are two primary levels of awareness possible for modern humans. There are those who don’t think about why they want what they…
Life > Fear | Daniel Miessler
I recently decided to give Xobni for GMail a try. It does some wicked integration between your Google contacts, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Basically, the idea…
A Social Media Security Model
I am often asked how I handle handle security while using social networks. This post serves as my answer in image and bullet form. I…
The Ambitious Sam Harris | Daniel Miessler
I was just struck this morning with a realization about Sam Harris’s latest book: The Moral Landscape. I’m browsing through portions of it again after…
Trump Proposed a Lump Tax on the Rich to Pay Off the National Debt
Today I learned (from Scott Adams’ blog) that Donald Trump, during his last presidential run, proposed that we pay the national debt off all at…
CNN and Hero Suicide Bombers
I saw the most extraordinary thing yesterday during lunch. It was a CNN piece on a Libyan man who was fighting against Ghaddafi’s forces. He…