Mastodawn

@SecurityWriter I just tell folk that’s how they know it’s from me.

Cleaned out the last of my desk today. There are reasons I’m moving, but it’s still always sort of bittersweet when you shred the last drawer of notes and diagrams.

I did find this list of advice I gave to my team a long time ago (ok, not that long - I only got into this last job at the very end of 2024). Maybe they’re useful to you, too.

• Read all the things
• Make connections
• Accept gut level hypotheses -but-
• Disprove your own ideas - aggressively
• Share the ideas you cannot disprove
• Warn leaders early; use appropriate caveats
• Timestamps will save you; send emails
• Log actions taken after hours
• Be wary of empty logs left by people or systems
• Confirm the problems you think are someone else's responsibility to solve truly belong to those other people, and that they know about them, too

johnchiment Mar 8

Last day with my current employer is Friday the 13th.

New employer hasn’t finalized a start date yet.

Probably not my smartest move (giving notice before I had the next start) but I need the break. Really looking forward to having some time to sleep, do yard work, clean, all the adulting tasks I never complete on the weekend and am too tired to attempt in the evenings.

Very grateful to have a wonderful spouse who understands that I need some time not spent on generating income. That said, if you’d have a short term project that could use some threat intel support? I’m very open to the idea of remote side gigs while I line up for the next push.

If you’d want to talk cyber, space, nonkinetics, or how different domains interact with each other in modern conflict, let’s chat.

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johnchiment Mar 7

@elena @emilymbender @cwebber @tante I think I’ll do some laundry, play with my kiddo, and reread rostand’s Cyrano - whom I continue to find to be a good guide when facing ethical questions in technology and conflict.

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johnchiment Mar 1

@DavidBridger id read it. Depending on what collapsed in society, was there enough of a shift in atmospheric conditions that sextant usage is impacted? I am *not* a sailor, but I believe sextant readings can be impacted by pollution, temperature, and air density (since all three affect refraction and *may* influence where the stellar body you’re shooting appears to be). Long distance navigation accuracy may have been affected by whatever happened in centuries past - not an insurmountable problem (I expect people would have figured out the new normal) but maybe old paper charts and logs don’t quite take you where they once did. Or the upper atmosphere is still in such flux that bubbles of misdirection swirl in difficult to predict patterns, forcing folk to consider wind and tides and nav timelines when planning journeys.

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johnchiment Feb 28

@jerry ugh. I had plans that did not include going back into the office….

Frickin’ weather.

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johnchiment Feb 25

@robhawkes looks fun!

johnchiment Feb 5

This is free trader Beowulf, calling anyone

Mayday, mayday

We are under attack

Main drive is gone, turret number one not responding

Mayday

Losing cabin pressure fast

Calling anyone, please help

This is free trader Beowulf

Mayday

johnchiment Jan 27

Yes - decency.

johnchiment Jan 19

Do I know anyone with insight into /experience with the whole John Deere right to repair situation? I don’t need google-deep articles; I’m trying to help someone who is trying to keep their tractors working while also trying not to go under. If you know of folk in central New York, northern Virginia, or midwestern states (don’t know exact location on that one; sorry!) who have experience with getting as much through the current legal limits on this issue I’d love to know more. Thanks!