1/ My bank told the stock exchange that customer data appeared on the dark web. Preliminary analysis found 3,897 records - mobile numbers, birth dates, home addresses - with authenticity still being checked. My savings and my home loan sit there. A thread:
6/ The useful question was never "who is leaking my data." It is "what am I comfortable seeing read aloud." The one test you can apply before you click, instead of after you read the news.
The smartest people I know are the best at explaining why something won't work. Self-handicapping is real: you build the excuse before you build the thing, so failure was never really yours. The real cost isn't one failed project. It's the decade of projects that never started.
@nireyal Most people never decide. They inherit a default - the safe job, the expected path, the unspoken family code - and call it a choice. Deciding who you want to be is the first small win. Wrote about this: https://t.co/ouuo5oM848
@Markmanson Waiting feels safer than choosing, but the cost of waiting is invisible while it compounds. A reversible choice today beats a perfect one next year. Wrote about this: https://t.co/B1X9V8Qgzn
1/ I watched a colleague give a perfect presentation. Sharp deck, clean numbers, the room nodding at the right intervals.
Walking out, someone said under his breath: "Good stuff. But honestly, any of us could have put that together."
Nobody disagreed π§΅