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  "about": "My name is Daniel Miessler (MEE-slur) and I'm a cybersecurity and AI guy based in the San Francisco Bay Area.\nMy main projects right now are LifeOS—the open-source Life Operating System for building your own AI infrastructure (13K+ GitHub stars), Fabric—an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI (41K+ GitHub stars, included in Kali Linux), Surface—a content intelligence feed at thesurface.ai, and Unsupervised Learning—my newsletter and community about AI, security, and human potential.\nI spend most of my time thinking about how AI will change work and society, and building tools to help people navigate that transition. I've been writing at danielmiessler.com since 1999. My goal is to help people figure out what they're meant to do with their lives, especially as the world changes rapidly around us. I call this Human 3.0—the transition from defining yourself by your job to defining yourself by what you create.",
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    "P2: People are stuck in a 1950's style hierarchical mindset that makes them think they're not one of the \"special ones\" with ideas and dreams",
    "P3: People have poor models for how the world works, and they lack the tools to properly improve them",
    "M1: Increase human Eudaimonia by helping people identify, articulate, and pursue their own purpose in life",
    "M2: Build systems—heavily leveraging the latest in AI—that help people upgrade to the best possible version of themselves (Human 3.0)",
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    "Writing tools: Neovim with Tokyo Night Storm theme",
    "Programming languages: TypeScript, Go",
    "Operating system: macOS with extensive CLI customization",
    "Coffee: Serious student of coffee since 2015",
    "Music: Heavy metal, electronic, progressive metal — Tool, Meshuggah, Boris Brejcha",
    "Languages: Spanish (DLI trained)",
    "Learning style: Reading, building, teaching",
    "Communication: Direct, honest, philosophical",
    "Work style: Deep focus blocks, automation-heavy",
    "Values: Curiosity, growth, helping others, building useful things"
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    "Outside 🚶🏼‍➡️Walk in the ☀️Sunlight for 5-10 minutes.",
    "Avoid inputs that could be interesting / distracting",
    "💊 Vitamins / Supplements / Nootropics",
    "🥛 Small Protein shake",
    "☕ Caffeine",
    "📅 Start agenda",
    "Chipotle Bowl (Brown Rice / Black Beans) around lunch sometimes",
    "Protein Shake for lunch sometimes",
    "Try to walk around 5-30 minutes near dusk (not strict on this)",
    "Sleep with Eye Mask and Earplugs, around 2300-1AM"
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    "\"Man's Search for Meaning\" by Viktor Frankl",
    "\"The Second Mountain\" by David Brooks",
    "\"The Beginning of Infinity\" by David Deutsch",
    "\"The Name of the Wind\" by Patrick Rothfuss",
    "\"Primal Hunter\" by Zogarth (LitRPG)",
    "\"Meditations\" by Marcus Aurelius",
    "\"Sapiens\" by Yuval Noah Harari",
    "\"The Singularity Is Near\" by Ray Kurzweil",
    "\"Zero to One\" by Peter Thiel",
    "\"The Art of War\" by Sun Tzu",
    "\"Antifragile\" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb",
    "\"The Black Swan\" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb",
    "\"Thinking, Fast and Slow\" by Daniel Kahneman"
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    "Pulp Fiction",
    "Ex Machina",
    "Blade Runner 2049",
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    "Arrival",
    "Interstellar",
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    "Lex Fridman Podcast",
    "Huberman Lab",
    "Making Sense with Sam Harris",
    "The Tim Ferriss Show"
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    "Recession-like shock caused by AI job loss by 2027 (Chances About Even)",
    "We'll have AGI between 2025 and 2028 (Almost Certain)",
    "Open-source models will largely catch up to closed-source models (Probable)",
    "Apple is about to go from the worst AI implementation to the best (Probable)",
    "Everyone, including people, will have an API (Almost Certain)",
    "Personal daemons will broadcast preferences (Almost Certain)",
    "Venues personalize based on customer preferences (Almost Certain)",
    "People will lack meaning and look for it in games (Almost Certain)"
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      "Surface — Content intelligence feed at thesurface.ai.",
      "SecLists — The penetration tester's companion. 70K+ GitHub stars, included in Kali Linux since 2018.",
      "Feed — Automated intelligence aggregation and content routing pipeline.",
      "Arbol — Cloud execution and content pipeline infrastructure on Cloudflare Workers."
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      "Human 3.0 — Framework and platform for upgrading humans for the AI transition.",
      "danielmiessler.com — Personal website and blog since 1999."
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      "role": "Director, VulnMgmt & AppSec",
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      "role": "Head of BI, Information Security",
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      "summary": "Security advisory for Fortune 500 leadership and boards"
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      "role": "Principal Security Architect",
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      "summary": "Co-founded Fortify on Demand; grew it from 2 to 350+ people"
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      "org": "University · DynTek · Aflac",
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