Meet Alice – a burnt-out barista who turns to the Dark Web to pay off her student debt. But when cybercrime pulls her deeper than she could have ever imagined, only one question remains: can Alice get out before it’s too late? The Hacker Chronicles Season 2: Digital Nomad. Presented by Tenable. Starring Michael C. Hall as John Doe. And Chloe Taylor as Alice.
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One average name, some crazy stuff! Cover art photo provided by Michael Hacker on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@michael_hacker
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I was inspired to really speak to the edge of my own journey, and all of ours collectively this week. I did a talk in my hometown for a bunch of really important people, namely my city, and it really has had me thinking about the true impact of my journey, of your journey, and what's at stake for us, not only as we grow individually, but as a species.
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Join HOU.SEC.CON Cofounders Michael and Sam each week as they chat with conference speakers about the latest topics and trends in the cybersecurity space.
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The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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Learn all the hacks to upgrade your life, money and travel – all while spending less and saving more. Host Chris Hutchins is a life hacker who has saved millions by breaking down every aspect of life, looking to maximize happiness at the lowest cost. Chris and guests like Tim Ferriss, Tony Hawk, Codie Sanchez and Gary Vaynerchuk will help you learn the strategies and tactics they used to shape their success.
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Culture Hackers
Robbe Richman and a cast of hackers, troublemakers, movers and shakers, Robbe Richman
A show all about culture hacking - at companies, in business and the world. The first episodes are the free audio book of Robert Richman's "Culture Blueprint."
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The biggest threat to you and this country today is a cyber attack. Are you protected? Find out now with Dr. Eric Cole, former special agent for the CIA and current CEO of Secure Anchor.
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A Bob Dylan Primer is a series of broadcasts dedicated to the work and life of Bob Dylan. The first season consists of 12 episodes, appearing approximately once a month, and covering the time period from Dylan’s youth in Minnesota and early days in New York City up to the release of Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind in 1997. I’ve attempted to combine a detailed account of Dylan’s life with my own personal observations about Dylan’s creative output and place in our world. It’s my hope that A Bob Dylan ...
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A podcast about music - how to listen, play, practice, and enjoy. Listen for a combo of advice, insights, and occasional humor from pianists Peter Martin and Adam Maness. A podcast from Open Studio
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Life is hard. This podcast will help. Lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Williamson. Including guests like David Goggins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Naval Ravikant, Sam Harris, Jocko Willink, Dr Andrew Huberman, Dr Julie Smith, Steven Bartlett, Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Matthew McConaughey, Alain de Botton, Alex Hormozi, Tony Robbins, Chris Bumstead, Mark Manson and more.
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Since 2005, BlueHat has been where the security research community, and Microsoft, come together as peers; to debate, discuss, share, challenge, celebrate and learn. On The BlueHat Podcast, Microsoft and MSRC’s Nic Fillingham and Wendy Zenone will host conversations with researchers and industry leaders, both inside and outside of Microsoft, working to secure the planet’s technology and create a safer world for all.
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7th Son: 7 Days is a audio prequel anthology to J.C. Hutchins' thriller novel, 7th Son: Descent. Set two weeks before Descent’s extraordinary events, the series reveals the lives of seven seemingly unrelated men, and their everyday challenges. In the world of 7th Son, "everyday challenges" are far from ordinary. Each of these seven stories stars a unique John Michael Smith. Witness criminal profiler Dr. Mike's quest to hunt an unstoppable serial killer. Watch blue-collar musician John realiz ...
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Jump-start your use of the Cisco Learning Network's dynamic features and vibrant community offerings. Here you will find technical information and professional networking opportunities, which will help advance your certification goals. By joining the Cisco Learning Network you will be a part of the community, prepare for success, interact with professionals, mentor, share, and achieve.
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An interview show where I talk to programmers, developers, and coders of all types who have gone into business for themselves. I find out the secrets to their success so you can make the move into an entrepreneurial pursuit yourself.
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Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.
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Security Headlines is a podcast about the latest security vulnerabilities with in the cyber security field. So if your interested about the latest security holes no mather if you are a tech savy penetration tester, a devops person, a programmer or just generally interested in the latest technology security news. Security headlines is here for you Security headlines is perfect to listen on when you want a quick update, on the way to work or when you are taking a walk out side The podcast is p ...
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Faith Angle brings together top scholars and leading journalists for smart conversations around some of the most profound questions in the public square. Rather than a current-events debrief, our goal is a substantive conversation one notch beneath the surface, drawing out how religious convictions manifest themselves in American culture and public life.
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The Culture of Narrative with Michael Margolis
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1:20:49Michael Margolis the CEO of Storied, Inc – #1 narrative expert in tech Works with C-suite and VP leaders that need to get their story straight Clients include product execs at Meta, Google, Shopify, Uber, Salesforce $13B+ in investments thru executive buy-in and influence at scale 500+ keynotes and talks for Microsoft, Visa, Moody’s, SXSW, TEDx Aut…
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“Will Any Old Crap Cause Emergent Misalignment?” by J Bostock
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8:39The following work was done independently by me in an afternoon and basically entirely vibe-coded with Claude. Code and instructions to reproduce can be found here. Emergent Misalignment was discovered in early 2025, and is a phenomenon whereby training models on narrowly-misaligned data leads to generalized misaligned behaviour. Betley et. al. (20…
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Cybersecurity Leadership Across the Globe with Chris & Damian
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34:55In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole explores what it truly means to be a cybersecurity leader in today’s interconnected world. Drawing on insights from Hong Kong to London, Dr. Cole breaks down the unique challenges CISOs face globally and reveals the leadership principles that remain universal no matter where you are. You’ll discover …
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#986 - Esther Perel - How Love Dies: The Psychology of Cheating & Attraction
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1:24:50Sponsors: See me on tour in America: https://chriswilliamson.live See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get up to $50 off the RP Hypertrophy App at https://rpstrength.com/modernwisdom Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://shopify.com/modernwisdom Get $100 off the bes…
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“AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation” by Tim Hua
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56:46“This is a Copernican-level shift in perspective for the field of AI safety.” - Gemini 2.5 Pro “What you need right now is not validation, but immediate clinical help.” - Kimi K2 Two Minute Summary There have been numerous media reports of AI-driven psychosis, where AIs validate users’ grandiose delusions and tell users to ignore their friends’ and…
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“Before LLM Psychosis, There Was Yes-Man Psychosis” by johnswentworth
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5:26A studio executive has no beliefs That's the way of a studio system We've bowed to every rear of all the studio chiefs And you can bet your ass we've kissed 'em Even the birds in the Hollywood hills Know the secret to our success It's those magical words that pay the bills Yes, yes, yes, and yes! “Don’t Say Yes Until I Finish Talking”, from SMASH S…
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Smarter Strategies for Retirement, Wealth Building, and Taxes with Michael Kitces
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59:30#243: Discover smarter strategies to grow your wealth and create financial flexibility. We dive into when it makes sense to invest beyond retirement accounts, how to access savings early through Roth conversions and 72(t) distributions, ways to reduce taxes with HSAs, tax-advantaged accounts, and charity, and so much more. Michael Kitces is the Hea…
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For these last couple of weeks of August we’ve been airing a miniseries from our friends at Radio Diaries.The third and final part is about a woman named Dorothy Thompson. In 1939, Time Magazine called her a woman who “thinks, talks and sleeps world problems and scares strange men half to death.” They weren’t wrong. Thompson was a foreign correspon…
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“Training a Reward Hacker Despite Perfect Labels” by ariana_azarbal, vgillioz, TurnTrout
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13:19Summary: Perfectly labeled outcomes in training can still boost reward hacking tendencies in generalization. This can hold even when the train/test sets are drawn from the exact same distribution. We induce this surprising effect via a form of context distillation, which we call re-contextualization: Generate model completions with a hack-encouragi…
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When does Afro Blue and Smells Like Teen Spirit belong on the same record? When it's a Robert Glasper album! In 2012, Glasper's Black Radio brought together artists like Erykah Badu to bring a jazz standard, Afro Blue, back into the popular music canon. Black Radio hit #1 on the jazz charts, while simultaneously reaching #4 on the hip-hop R&B chart…
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#985 - Dr David Spiegel - Hypnosis, Brain Hacking, & Mental Mastery
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1:33:36Dr. David Spiegel is a psychiatrist, Stanford professor, and leading authority on hypnosis and stress-related health. What exactly is hypnosis? Most of us picture it as a magician’s trick, when someone dangles a watch, your eyes get heavy, and suddenly you’re suggestible. But that barely scratches the surface. The real question is, what’s the true …
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“Banning Said Achmiz (and broader thoughts on moderation)” by habryka
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51:47It's been roughly 7 years since the LessWrong user-base voted on whether it's time to close down shop and become an archive, or to move towards the LessWrong 2.0 platform, with me as head-admin. For roughly equally long have I spent around one hundred hours almost every year trying to get Said Achmiz to understand and learn how to become a good Les…
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“Underdog bias rules everything around me” by Richard_Ngo
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13:26People very often underrate how much power they (and their allies) have, and overrate how much power their enemies have. I call this “underdog bias”, and I think it's the most important cognitive bias for understanding modern society. I’ll start by describing a closely-related phenomenon. The hostile media effect is a well-known bias whereby people…
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#984 - Coltan Scrivner - Why We’re Drawn to Death, Crime, & Danger
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1:06:47Coltan Scrivner is a behavioral scientist, an expert on morbid curiosity in horror and true‑crime media, and an author. Why are humans so curious about death? From car accidents to scary stories, roller coasters, and horror movies, some people are fascinated while others are repulsed. What draws us toward the very things we should naturally want to…
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The Power of Shortwave Radio. And, What Gets Lost with Voice of America?
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50:36This month, the director of Voice of America is being forced out in the latest of many moves to dismantle the state broadcasting service. On this week’s On the Media, a history of the Voice of America, and how it’s been politicized. Plus, hear why propagandists in Russia, China, and Iran are celebrating cuts to U.S.-funded foreign reporting. [01:00…
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“Epistemic advantages of working as a moderate” by Buck
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5:59Many people who are concerned about existential risk from AI spend their time advocating for radical changes to how AI is handled. Most notably, they advocate for costly restrictions on how AI is developed now and in the future, e.g. the Pause AI people or the MIRI people. In contrast, I spend most of my time thinking about relatively cheap interve…
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“Four ways Econ makes people dumber re: future AI” by Steven Byrnes
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14:01(Cross-posted from X, intended for a general audience.) There's a funny thing where economics education paradoxically makes people DUMBER at thinking about future AI. Econ textbooks teach concepts & frames that are great for most things, but counterproductive for thinking about AGI. Here are 4 examples. Longpost: THE FIRST PIECE of Econ anti-pedago…
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What exactly is agentic AI, how is it shaping enterprise networks, and what skills do you need to stay ahead in this new era of automation? Cisco Learning Network Community Manager Matt Saunders and Lead Technical Advocate for Learn with Cisco Kareem Iskander dive into all of these topics as they ask, “What’s the Deal with Agentic AI?" You’ll hear …
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Simplifying Cybersecurity, Time Management & Strategic Playbooks
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30:47In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole dives deep into simplicity, time management, and the foundations of being a world-class Chief Information Security Officer. He explains how rebooting your life and career—just like you reboot a slow computer—can help clear distractions and focus on what truly matters. Dr. Cole also shares strategies …
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“Should you make stone tools?” by Alex_Altair
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6:02Knowing how evolution works gives you an enormously powerful tool to understand the living world around you and how it came to be that way. (Though it's notoriously hard to use this tool correctly, to the point that I think people mostly shouldn't try it use it when making substantial decisions.) The simple heuristic is "other people died because t…
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“My AGI timeline updates from GPT-5 (and 2025 so far)” by ryan_greenblatt
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7:26As I discussed in a prior post, I felt like there were some reasonably compelling arguments for expecting very fast AI progress in 2025 (especially on easily verified programming tasks). Concretely, this might have looked like reaching 8 hour 50% reliability horizon lengths on METR's task suite[1] by now due to greatly scaling up RL and getting lar…
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#983 - Gay Hendricks - Deeply Connected Relationships
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1:32:04Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, teacher, and an author renowned for his work on relationship transformation. Conscious loving is about more than just romance, it’s about clarity, commitment, and growth. With endless advice on the internet on how to optimize your love life, what if the real answer is aligning your expectations and evolving together…
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Get in Loser, We’re Going to ShmooCon with Matt Johansen
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36:50In this episode, Michael and Sam are joined by Matt Johansen, founder of Vulnerable U, to discuss his journey in cybersecurity, the importance of networking, and the evolution of technical content creation in the industry. Things Mentioned: · Vulnerable U - https://www.vulnu.com/ · Spain under fire for contracting Huawei to store judicial wiretaps …
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Deep Dive on Capital One Credit Cards and Miles (+ Why I Love Them)
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1:04:26#242: Chris dives into the Capital One credit card lineup, breaking down earning structures for miles and cash back, exciting benefits, and redemption strategies. He also covers the best 2-card combo, transfer partners, important application rules, and more. Link to Full Show Notes: https://chrishutchins.com/capital-one-credit-cards-miles-guide Par…
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The Forgotten Shock Jock Who Paved the Way for Rush Limbaugh
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9:39This week, we're airing part two of a documentary series, courtesy of Radio Diaries, about three radio personalities who had huge audiences in their time, but today, are largely forgotten. These days, we’re used to media that thrives on conflict, that amplifies the most outrageous voices in the room. It’s something we often trace back to shock jock…
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“Hyperbolic model fits METR capabilities estimate worse than exponential model” by gjm
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8:16This is a response to https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mXa66dPR8hmHgndP5/hyperbolic-trend-with-upcoming-singularity-fits-metr which claims that a hyperbolic model, complete with an actual singularity in the near future, is a better fit for the METR time-horizon data than a simple exponential model. I think that post has a serious error in it and its…
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“My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Lighthaven” by Zack_M_Davis
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10:06On 12 August 2025, I sat down with New York Times reporter Cade Metz to discuss some criticisms of his 4 August 2025 article, "The Rise of Silicon Valley's Techno-Religion". The transcript below has been edited for clarity. ZMD: In accordance with our meetings being on the record in both directions, I have some more questions for you. I did not rea…
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Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is undoubtedly one of the best pop rock albums ever. But the story behind its creation reads like a soap opera. Everyone -- Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mic Fleetwood -- were enduring heartbreak during its recording. Stevie and Lindsey were breaking up. The McVies had already split, but …
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“Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus” by Elizabeth
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31:18I’m going to describe a Type Of Guy starting a business, and you’re going to guess the business: The founder is very young, often under 25. He might work alone or with a founding team, but when he tells the story of the founding it will always have him at the center. He has no credentials for this business. This business has a grand vision, which h…
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#982 - Jesse Michels - UFOs, Aliens, Antigravity & Government Secrets
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2:10:23Jesse Michels is a YouTuber and show host, exploring subjects like UFOs, consciousness, and reality. For nearly a century, UFOs have captured our imagination as one of humanity’s greatest mysteries. Are they secret technology, alien visitors, or something else entirely? Who is behind them, what has been concealed, and what has been revealed about t…
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“Somebody invented a better bookmark” by Alex_Altair
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3:35This will only be exciting to those of us who still read physical paper books. But like. Guys. They did it. They invented the perfect bookmark. Classic paper bookmarks fall out easily. You have to put them somewhere while you read the book. And they only tell you that you left off reading somewhere in that particular two-page spread. Enter the Book…
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#981 - MacKenzie Price - Alpha School: A New Approach To Education
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1:11:21MacKenzie Price is an entrepreneur, podcaster, and co-founder of Alpha Schools. Just how broken is education? For fifty years, lofty promises in education have yielded dismal results. Now, with AI, infinite knowledge at our fingertips, and personalized one-on-one learning, how radically different could the school of the future look? Expect to learn…
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Silicon Valley's Rightwing Roots. Plus, the CEO of Bluesky Reimagines Social Media
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50:28When Donald Trump returned to office, tech companies donated millions of dollars to his inaugural committee. On this week’s On the Media, the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley. Plus, the CEO of the burgeoning social media platform, Bluesky, on how to billionaire-proof the internet. [01:00] Micah Loewinger speaks with Becca Lewis, a postdoctoral res…
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The #1 Skill CISOs Need for Career Acceleration (And How to Master It)
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32:01In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole dives deep into one of the most important yet often overlooked success principles for security leaders: simplicity. Drawing from decades of experience as one of the first CISOs before the title even existed, Dr. Cole explains why going back to the basics is critical for both personal growth and organ…
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#980 - David Pinsof - This is Your Brain on Bullsh*t
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1:12:26David Pinsof is a research scientist at UCLA, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, and an author. Everything is bullshit. Your opinions, your arguments, even your thoughts. Most of it’s manufactured, borrowed, or absorbed without question. So if all that’s fake, what’s real? And if we can’t trust our own minds, or anyone else’s, what can we trust?…
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Earn More Points with New Cards, Bonuses, and Challenges in 2025
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56:42#241: We cover new credit cards, increased welcome bonuses, and major changes to existing cards and their benefits. Plus, learn how to rack up thousands of points through airline and hotel challenges and giveaways. Link to Full Show Notes: https://chrishutchins.com/new-cards-increased-offers-points-challenges Partner Deals Copilot Money: Free 2 mon…
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