Consistency, Work-Life Balance, Meh...

Yoo Welcome to Issue #15 of Navigating Security.

🍃Quote of the week:

There are seasons where you’ll have to give 100% to hacking, but 100% all the time is unsustainable. Longevity is important. Take a break.

  Tadi

What To Expect 🫡

• Why I am an average hacker🤷🏾‍♂️
• Why I am not consistent, but you should🤔

This Week’s YouTube Video: Cybersecurity is hard

Why I am an average hacker🤷🏾‍♂️

I do not consider myself an elite hacker in any regard. Firstly, I haven’t been doing this for long enough, but compared to the other people on my level (YOE wise), I’m pretty average.

I’ve noticed this is mostly because I take my personal life more seriously nowadays. I am very intentional about my relationships outside of work and those take a lot of time and energy to tend to. On the flip side, early on in my career I spent all my time hacking and studying which meant less time outside. I had to ask myself, would I rather be the best of the best whilst my relationships with my friends and family crumble or be average and find fulfilment in both my work and my personal life? I chose the latter.

Where am I going with this? There’s more to hacking, take care of yourself by finding something else to balance out the amount of time you spend in front of a screen. There are seasons where you’ll have to give 100% to hacking, but 100% all the time is unsustainable. Longevity is important.

Why I am not consistent, but you should🤔

Despite finding systems that have made my work life easier, I find myself being inconsistent. I cannot tell you why because I do not know either. Here’s my encouragement to you though, find a sustainable cadence. I started this newsletter as a weekly thing, then moved it to biweekly, but even so, I have barely written anything this quarter. For now, let’s blame the summer - it is too hot to be doing anything.

Hard work and consistency beat talent any day. The person who can do something “small” consistently will do way better in the long run than one who does something “big” once in a while. I wish I could convince myself of this and stick to it.

Anyway, don’t be like me. Slow motion is better than no motion or something along those lines.

This was not technical at all because I am trying to use it as a means to start writing again. So, see you in the next issue. Cheers