Mental Health Without the Bullsht – Entry #6 IMPORTANT NOTE: I am NOT a mental health professional. If you need help, I STRONGLY encourage you to seek it, and you can start here. This series of blog posts is me candidly sharing my deeply personal experiences with you (with some tears along the way). You Know the Type The ones who always say they’re “good.”…
Mental Health Without the Bullsht – Entry #5 IMPORTANT NOTE: I am NOT a mental health professional. If you need help, I STRONGLY encourage you to seek it, and you can start here. This series of blog posts is me candidly sharing my deeply personal experiences with you (with some tears along the way). Let’s Get One Thing Straight: Burnout Isn’t Just About Being Tired…
Mental Health Without the Bullsht – Entry #4 IMPORTANT NOTE: I am NOT a mental health professional. If you need help, I STRONGLY encourage you to seek it, and you can start here. This series of blog posts is me candidly sharing my deeply personal experiences with you (with some tears along the way). When You Hear “Addiction,” What Comes to Mind? Needles. Bottles. Rehab….
Mental Health Without the Bullshit – Entry #3 IMPORTANT NOTE: I am NOT a mental health professional. If you need help, I STRONGLY encourage you to seek it, and you can start here. This series of blog posts is me candidly sharing my deeply personal experiences with you (with some tears along the way). Living with ADHD Is Like Having 47 Browser Tabs Open—All the…
Mental Health Without the Bullshit – Entry #2 IMPORTANT NOTE: I am NOT a mental health professional. If you need help, I STRONGLY encourage you to seek it, and you can start here. This series of blog posts is me candidly sharing my deeply personal experiences with you (with some tears along the way). The Ones Who “Have It Together” You’d never know by looking…
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. But let’s be honest—we need more than a month. We need a full-blown reckoning. I’ve struggled with my own mental health over the years—ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression—you name it. Some days I’ve barely held it together. Other days I’ve been on top of the world, only to crash hard and wonder what the hell is wrong with me. I’ve…
I’m sitting on a cruise ship right now, somewhere between islands and reality, after having one of those conversations that sticks with you long after it ends. This morning, I met an older couple—retired, wise, and just plain kind. We started talking about careers, purpose, and life’s winding roads. It didn’t take long before one of them said something that hit me square between the…
Look, cybersecurity is heavy enough. Ransomware sucks. Breaches suck. People reusing the same dumb passwords for 20 years? That really sucks. But sometimes, this industry serves up stories so ridiculous, so head-shakingly absurd, that you just have to laugh. Here are 10 cybersecurity facts that won’t help you secure a damn thing—but might make you spit your coffee or at least shake your head in…
If you’ve spent more than a few minutes in the cybersecurity industry, you know that credibility is everything—or at least it should be. That’s why the news that Mark Lanterman, a well-known cyber forensic expert involved in over 2,000 cases, is under FBI investigation is a gut punch to many of us. Brian Krebs’ report lays it out: serious questions are being raised about whether…
NOTE: There’s no correlation between today’s date and 9/11, this was a topic that came up in a recent conversation. Tonight on InfoSec to Insanity, we’re tackling a subject that’s been gnawing at me for a long time: the slow, quiet erosion of our civil liberties since 9/11. If you’re old enough to remember that day—and most of you are—you remember the fear, the unity,…