Daniel Miessler

We all know Orwell as an expert on failed governments, and I just happened upon his review of Mein Kampf from 1940—so, before it was clear he was the worst person in the world. The review is short, but the last part...

The terrorists who attacked the Capitol building have a lot in common with ISIS, at least from my perspective. But that’s just the point. It really is just a matter of perspective. If I believed as that mob does,...

I’m becoming something of an audiophile. I know, that’s what I thought at first too. The whole process has been fascinating to me, from the learning, to the gear, to the listening. But what I’m finding most...

Many are very confused about what happened with Parler being pushed off the internet, and I think I can help. Imagine that you’re a new virtual server provider and you have five scenarios: You get a message saying...

I often look back and wonder when my opinion changed about something. My ideas on top-down vs. bottom-up approaches for nurturing ideas, for example. I know I read Loonshots, and I know I read The Evolution of...

I spend my time reading 3-6 books a month on security, technology, and society—and thinking about what might be coming next. Every Monday I send out a list of the best content I’ve found in the last week to around...

Over the last few years I’ve seen two very different complaints against tech companies. Google is the most recent example. Workers Being Treated Poorly: I’m 100% in support of unionizing for this reason. Treating...

I’ve always been skeptical of nostalgia. It feels to me like surrender to the idea that it’ll never be better than it was. Fuck that. We should be doing stuff today that we can be nostalgic about tomorrow. But only...

Lots of things have combined to help me capture and articulate what I believe is my ultimate life purpose: I enjoy finding patterns in how people pursue meaning, constructing models for how said meaning works, and...

I wanted to lay out some random thoughts going into 2021. First, like most people, I’m just happy 2020 is over. I know the quip that January 1st is just one day after December 31st, but it doesn’t feel that way....

Basics Sound is the vibration of something within air that causes waves, or pulses, of that air that can be measured by the number of waves per second. This is measured in Hertz, which is one wave per second. The...

A lot of people are surprised when I tell them that computer security isn’t really a priority in most companies, or for our society in general. I captured this in my piece Why Software Remains Insecure, which...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to live the ideal life. This was prompted years ago by David Brooks who talked about résumé virtues vs. eulogy virtues in The Road to Character: It occurred to...

A number of forces are simultaneously pushing people towards two sides of a socioeconomic barbell. And the question of where you will go is increasingly coming down to your parents and your peers. There are many...

8/10 My One-Sentence Summary Only people who manage their lives according to reality and reason, and who strive to be productive on their own—with no help from others—are worthy of love (or assistance when...

I’ve been writing for probably a decade about how bad Google’s GUI is for Google Analytics, Google Apps, and countless of their other properties—not to mention their multiple social media network attempts, like...

I’ve been doing the Unsupervised Learning show since 2015. That’s five years of a weekly show where I highlight innovation, among other things. One thing that’s struck me during all that time is the staggering...

Another trend that’s been accelerated by COVID is the move away from movie theaters. They were already struggling due to the high prices and bad experience, with a few boutique exceptions, but with fewer people being...