Bookending Mandy Brown — 08 May 2024 Here’s a small trick that worked for me over the dozen years I led remote teams: at the end of your working day, shut down every app on your machine. Yes, all of t
Published: Wed 13 March 2024 Updated: Wed 13 March 2024 By tags: cybersecurity career There has been a lot of hype for a while now about cybersecurity careers. Cybersecurity careers are hot, they say.
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I keep a bullet journal. I'm not one of those people you see on Pinterest with the fancy spreads – I mostly just use black ink, the standard setup, and the occasional custom collection. Every time I j
Imagine this. You step into a room filled with your colleagues and they are busy working on their laptops. Confident in the compelling message you’re about to deliver, you start speaking. Message deli
I. The Bumper The trip to Delaware was only supposed to last a day. David Pokora, a bespectacled University of Toronto senior with scraggly blond hair down to his shoulders, needed to travel south to
“I was devastated, but life goes on and I feel fortunate for where I work now,” said Kiew, who never met Musk but witnessed him famously carrying a kitchen sink through Twitter’s San Francisco headqua
My Journey from Discontent to Discovery Two and a half years ago, I found myself at a crossroads. My career path was a patchwork of sales and odd jobs—from pest control to driving for Uber to moving p
The Brutality Reality of Hunting For Cyber Work A New Experience The last 3 months have been a bit of a shock to me and a first in my career. Firstly, a bit on context, as I don’t want this post to be
Maybe it’s all in what you’re used to. In fact, I’m sure it is. I grew up with two, hardworking, blue collar parents—a mechanic, and a cosmetologist. We lived in a town where neighbors looked after ne
Crafting a standout resume for a cybersecurity practitioner position not only involves showcasing your technical prowess and soft skills but also requires strategic use of keywords to ensure your appl
11 min read· Jan 27, 2024 -- Hi all! So, this is going to be a different type of post. I’ve tried to stay a little off the radar personally with my blogs and Twitter account for a lot of reasons. It’s
I’ve been thinking about all these layoffs, and wanted to capture some thoughts and speculations on the causes. Both for the existing ones, and those I think are to come. Economic pressure First, ther
Recent tech layoffs have left many questioning the industry’s stability. However, a closer look reveals that these layoffs are not a sign of economic struggles, but rather a strategic move by tech com
I spent a fair portion of my adult life working for large tech companies. In all my interactions with peers, no other topic caused as much cynicism and angst as the question of performance management
A mere 700 IT jobs were added in the US last year compared to 267,000 the year prior, it's claimed. It'd be easy to blame layoffs, but that's not all there is to it, says tech consultancy Janco Associ
By Damien Santiago I’ve created five CodeQL queries that catch potentially potent bugs in the OpenSSL libcrypto API, a widely adopted but often unforgiving API that can be misused to cause memory leak
I have a dead-simple diagnostic tool for 2024. Ask yourself how you feel about Mondays. Too many of us dread them. The meetings. The meetings about meetings. The planning that rarely turns into realit
6 min read· Sep 12 https://endgamepr.com/ In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported that there will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs in 2025. Their research shows that global cybersecurity j
The following essay is adapted from a social media post. It attracted quite a bit of attention, so I decided to refine the argument here. I spent more than 25 years in tech. If you asked me for advice
By Lauren Weber | Photographs by Jovelle Tamayo for The Wall Street Journal Updated Nov. 2, 2023 at 9:49 am ET The return-to-office battle between workers and employers is entering a more combative ph
November 2, 2023 Security management Today Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President Brad Smith shared insight on the global cybersecurity landscape and introduced our Secure Future Initiative. These engin
Some of the biggest names in tech have unleashed layoffs over the past few days. Is this a bad sign for the tech industry as a whole? Expedia, Waymo, LinkedIn, Bandcamp, and Stack Overflow have all ma
Enlarge Google / Ron Amadeo Google used to be a company that rarely did layoffs, but this year job cuts are almost a monthly occurrence. The latest group to see cuts is Google's news division, which C
I’ve been thinking about moats a lot lately. And how they apply to career and personal growth. For those who have never heard the term, it’s common terminology among the investor folk. Warren Buffet m
When workplaces are remade by a tectonic shift — women flooding into the work force, the rise of computing — it typically takes some time for economists, psychologists, sociologists and other scholars
Here’s an uncomfortable topic, especially in the Bay Area. Covid and a near recession has taught companies that they don’t like lifestyle employees. Or what I’m calling “casuals”. These are people who
For the second year in a row, inflation outpaced growth in U.S. engineering salaries, according to the IEEE-USA 2023 Salary and Benefits Survey. That’s the first multiyear dip in real income since the
Workers who telecommute tend to be more aware of cybersecurity threats than those who spend most of their time in a physical office and are more likely to take action to ward them off, according to ou
When Rowan Rosenthal heard about Grindr’s return-to-office mandate during a virtual town hall meeting in August, anxiety, confusion and anger set in. The principal product designer lived within a 25-m
But despite previous transparency around the cost-cutting measures, employees inquiring about how the budget cuts have impacted their performance review will now be fobbed off. According to leaked gui
I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a conversation we had several years ago: “Hey, I’ve got a question for you. A long time ago I remember you
Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforc
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I don’t think anything I’ve ever written has been as misunderstood as this piece. That’s entirely my failure. Let me be clearer: By practice I do not mean rehearsal. I mean practice as in a thing you
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Adam Jackson, a founder of Braintrust, a decentralized talent network that runs on a blockchain.
“All this buzz around ChatGPT, it’s mostly just sizzle,” Jackson said. “It’s not changing how companies hire.” He said people are irreplaceable for jobs that require understanding human needs, such as…