Surya Prakash Jayanti

Ryan Holiday's books never fail to captivate. It offers a fresh and much-needed perspective that resonates deeply. One of the most powerful quotes comes at the end: "Just as dust collects on the floor, ego will cloud your judgment. As you must sweep the floor daily , you should check your decisions for ego." This analogy serves as a poignant reminder of the importance of continual self-awareness and humility in our daily lives. Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage. Football coach Bill Walsh explained, "self-confidence becomes arrogance, assertiveness becomes obstinacy, and self-assurance becomes recless abandon." This is the ego, as the writer Cyril Connolly warned that "sucks us down like the law of gravity" If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. Humble in our aspirtations. Gracious in our success. Resilient in our failures. We can seek to rationalize the worst behavior by pointing to out...

After land, sea, air, and space, warfare has entered the fifth domain: Cyberspace. That's what this book "The Fifth Domain" sheds light on. Resilience is the capacity of any "entity... to prepare for disruptions, to recover from shocks and stresses, and to adapt and grow from a disruptive experience. One of the recommendations was that when the NSA finds a hole in widely used software, it should tell the manufacturer, with rare exceptions. Those exceptions would be approved at a high level by the government. If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine. There are two kinds of companies: those that have been hacked and know it; and those that have been hacked and don't. Needs to do to protect itself fits into one of five core "functions": Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. Software was not built to be used, it was built to be bought by someone at the top. Cybersecurity Framework's five fun...