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Everything happens for a reason

Often, the reason is that you're stupid enough to make bad decisions

I used to be young and confused. I even thought I was good back then.At some point, I started being just confused.That's when I realized that stupidity, like Mariah Carey between Halloween and NYE, was all around.For the last decade, I've confirmed how far one can go by consistently running away from stupidity instead of chasing excellence.Waitwaitwhot?How is it possible to run away from something that's everywhere? In a consistent way?Is there a Stupidity Kryptonite?

Lessons almost learned
from trying to be a bit less confused than the day before

It's the same approach for delivering effective cyber defense, security operations, and not burning yourself out.One
day
atatime!Is that it? I wish! That's just the starting line. In this newsletter, I talk about running away from stupidity in life by sharing lessons almost learned.Almost? Almost learned, yes.Why Almost? Well, it's my favorite word in any language.Almost can be used almost everywhere.You can transform almost any absolute statement, wrong by definition, into something debatable, among a few other handy use cases.In this case, each time I think I've learned a good lesson for good, I fail in a new, different way.Does that mean I didn't learn that lesson? I say I had almost learned it, and now it's almost, almost learned. There's always room for one more almost, which leads to another topic: failing fast vs. minimizing failures.Let's keep that for one of the lessons almost learned.

You have one shot.
Are you just letting it slip?

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PS: Yes, you got the reference. Now scroll up and treat yourself to some stupidity kryptonite. Action may be reversed, inaction is not.

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