I’ve done some pretty dumb things in my various sports over the years. I’d like to believe I’ve gotten better at risk management with time and yet if that’s true then I also don’t want to let myself know lest it breed complacency. Sometimes I tell myself that being both a security professional and an extreme sports enthusiast make for a useful kind of cross-training but for that to be true then I have to be disciplined enough to listen to that inner pessimist when temptation calls.
Happiness is finding a new podcast to follow. This happened most recently when Roman Mars’ “99% Invisible” cross-posted a Hyperfixed episode about supermarket cold cases. I could tell pretty quickly that this would likely end up in the regular rotation and this morning found myself enjoying the latest episode on measurement.
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