Just like Putin attacked Ukraine to fight his dwindling popularity as a dictator, Ali Khamanei has just attacked Israel to fight his dwindling popularity as a dictator soon Xi may do the same with Taiwan. Decadent dictators endanger the world as we know it and love it.

I just met with my national security team for an update on Iran’s attacks against Israel. Our commitment to Israel’s security against threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad.

I stand with Israel 🇮🇱

Thinking of friends, family and colleagues in Israel!

Our prayers, thoughts, and support are with you. Stay strong!

Join Kevin Ryan (the “Godfather” of NYC Tech) from AlleyCorp and Aleksandr Yampolskiy (CEO & Co-Founder SecurityScorecard) for this webinar discussing the:

- Ideas worth incubating in the NYC tech space in 2024 and beyond

- Broader trends to note in what may be the next…

MORE ON SUBSCALE IPOs

New tldr: Don't go public unless you have a path to $1B high margin revenue in ~5 years.

Lots of discussion and feedback re: my earlier post on subscale IPOs. I went back and dug into the data. Important note: the ARR numbers below are not ARR at IPO,…

I applied to 100 jobs using a resume with the name, 'Kismma D. Nhuhts' and I got 29 interviews.

This is what I've learned about resumes:

Anxiety is lack of progress.

Lack of progress is lack of clarity.

Lack of clarity happens when you never take the time to self-reflect on whether you are actually going where you want to be in life.

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” — Jack Canfield

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective—doing less—is the path of the…

⭐ 80% improvement in breach prediction.
⭐ Companies with an F are 13.8x more susceptible to breaches.
⭐ False positives under 1%.

Today, SecurityScorecard introduces the industry’s most predictive and accurate cybersecurity risk ratings. 👇

Join us for our webinar as Dr. Bob Sohval, VP & Fellow of Data Science, and Discover how we identified 'bad behaviors' strongly linked with breaches to fine-tune our letter grades for optimal correlation with the likelihood of experiencing a data breach. brighttalk.com/webcast/19566/…

30 isn’t the new 20.

It’s an excuse to take ten years longer to accomplish the same thing.

Watching eclipse from SecurityScorecard SecurityScorecard offices #eclipse

Q: What are the most boring tasks that Security teams have to do that are manual and repetitive?

Here is my list :
- Chasing other teams to patch their systems.
- Manually gathering KPIs and metrics from different systems
- Filling out Security questionnaires
- Taking time to…

I really loved this blog post by Tim Ferriss :

'What would this look like if it were easy?' is such a lovely and deceptively leveraged question. It’s easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you’re not redlining, you’re not trying hard enough. This leads us…

If you’re working every weekday.

And you’re working every weekend.

But your business isn’t growing.

You’re working on the wrong stuff.

Emphasis here on the word 'feel.'

Once we fully understand who we are, how we got to be the person we are, and, most importantly, what we’re really feeling, we get to expand our empathetic awareness of the other by listening somatically.

When we listen with our heart, we hear…

I’ve landed in NYC for the first time since December and the first place I visit is Strand Book Store . The Strand was a refuge and haven when I was a boy. To get lost in the stacks for hours on a Sunday afternoon was a little bit of heaven. Especially if it was raining outside.…