Tag: complex

Cyber Monk – Invocation

Premise

The cyber domain pervades and impacts every aspect of our modern lives. The networked world is complex, dynamic, and tenaciously paradoxical.

Most of us never have time to step back and examine the domain’s fundamental nature. This results in large shocks and trauma when unexpected events unfold.

Time is an invaluable and rare commodity for cyber workers – be it in security, hardware, software, support or developing XYZaaS. Cyber Defenders in particular, have incredibly high rates of burn-out, on a par with frontline health workers.1

However, I contend that to thrive in the modern interconnected world we must take some time to stop and consider the domain’s nature. Just like spending time exercising increases energy and focus, so too time spent considering the chaotic high-noise/low-validity cyber maelstrom will develop our resilience, flexibility and critical thinking. In addition, we need to look wide outside of cyber to draw applicable insights.

By increasing our understanding and gaining external inspiration we will be able to embrace and ‘sit with’ the uncertainty and cognitive dissonance.

Our instincts and decisions will improve and we will stop being at the mercy of the worst of cyber domain’s capricious whims.

Vesting

I’m the Cyber Monk: a tongue-in-cheek monastic nom de plume with a sincere purpose.

Through my writing and videos, I am sharing the cross-disciplinary concepts and perspectives that have helped me understand and work with the cyber domain.

I have been fortunate throughout my technical-life to have been mentored by amazing practitioners who encouraged me to think outside ‘the cyberz’. It is time to pay it forward.

I will be looking at diverse areas and topics such as:

  • Computer Science
  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology & Decision Making
  • Philosophy of Knowledge, Information and Mind
  • Leadership & Facilitation
  • Firefighting
  • Music
  • History
  • Biology
  • Nuclear Disasters
  • Engineering

I hope you find it useful and entertaining.

Until the next chapter:
Be curious.
Stay humble.
Choose Kindness.

  1. Cyber Defenders are burning out faster than Frontline Healthcare Workers – CYBERMINDZ.ORG ↩︎