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What had saved Ukraine is precisely what made the United States the most vulnerable nation on earth. Ukraine wasn’t fully automated. In the race to plug everything into the internet, the country was far behind. The tsunami known as the Internet of Things, which had consumed Americans for the better part of the past decade, had still not washed up in Ukraine. The nation’s nuclear stations, hospitals, chemical plants, oil refineries, gas and oil pipelines, factories, farms, cities, cars, traffic lights, homes, thermostats, lightbulbs, refrigerators, stoves, baby monitors, pacemakers, and insulin pumps were not yet “web-enabled.” In the United States, though, convenience was everything; it still is. We were plugging anything we could into the internet, at a rate of 127 devices a second. We had bought into Silicon Valley’s promise of a frictionless society. There wasn’t a single area of our lives that wasn’t touched by the web. We could now control our entire lives, economy, and grid via a remote web control. And we had never paused to think that, along the way, we were creating the world’s largest attack surface.
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Nicole Perlroth
An investor tells me that with each investment, Peter Thiel likes to ask: What do I know about this company that other investors don’t know? In other words: Do we have an edge? It’s only with some sort of informational asymmetry, goes the thinking, that one can not only beat the market but dominate it, and get the kind of return that takes a $500,000 check and turns it into a billion.
Break It Up There is a lot of evidence that spreading out a learning task will help you learn it more quickly. This means it’s better to practice a short bit every day than it is to sit down for three hours once a week. Taking it a step further, breaking up your practice into two or more sessions per day is also better than one long chunk of time just once a day. Many professional musicians have an intensive practice session earlier in the day and a lighter one later in the day, usually after a nap. If you can, do at least two sessions. This topic is important enough to merit its own short chapter, next.
The Practice of Practice
Jonathan Harnum
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