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Something I have difficulty explaining but is critical is spending time learning things that are not useful. I spent so much of my early career learning things that would never be useful. They were dead ends.
But they were not. They were contextual and it all comes back in the end. And you just have to live your life to see how it does. That isn't a satisfying answer. But I'm so glad I wasted so much time.
As a result, the higher you get up in an organization, the further you get from the customer, the problem you've solving, and any of the actual work, and the higher up you get, the more power you have to change the conditions of the business.
On some level, modern corporate power structures are a giant game of telephone where vibes beget further vibes, where managers only kind-of-sort-of understand what's going on, and the more vague one's understanding is, the more likely you are to lean toward what's good, or easy, or makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kind of idiot. The
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@isilzha314 I used to work at a factory and one of the maintenance people had a sticker on his toolbox that said:
“We have been doing so much with so little for so long that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing”. I think about that a lot.
Hear me out…now is the time to replace the old CVE standard with something modern: VulnerabiliNFT, a fully blockchain backed CVECoin where CNAs have to mine for every new vulnerability they issue.
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