Note: I wrote a similar title for a blog post I was writing at work, but some of the kids thought no-one would get the reference (probably because they didn't and didn't want to look stupid). So if you get the reference, please let me know! Anyway, onto our regular scheduled show: I've tried minimisation, … Continue reading Digital Compartmentalisation: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Multiple Screens →

When I travel abroad, I become a different person. I find myself doing things i would never do at home.Last week I landed in Billund. It's small, Danish town, and home of Lego.The hotel was in Aarhus. Perfectly reasonable. Except getting there required taking a coach.A coach.At home, I would rather walk fifty miles through … Continue reading Travel-tinted glasses →

I was going to be click-baity and title this post, "what incident response taught me about mixing up airports", but honestly, looking at LinkedIn these days, I think the humour would be lost. I'd end up with 50 new followers (75 if I ended the post with the word, "Agree?" Let me walk you through … Continue reading Airport Incident Response →

There's a peculiar disease that infects children somewhere between the ages of six and twelve. It's not chickenpox or measles, though it spreads just as quickly through playgrounds and birthday parties. It's the chronic need to establish dominance through increasingly absurd claims of material superiority. "Our car goes faster than yours." "Well, our TV is … Continue reading The Art of One-Upmanship →

Dear British Airways, I saw your latest business class sale advert. Beautiful photography, tasteful fonts, the usual tasteful smattering of champagne, winglets and folded duvets. Very on brand. And yet, in a strange way, it completely misses the point. From the ad, one can only assume the principal desire of the modern traveller is to … Continue reading Why British Airways’ Business Class Ads Miss the Only Point That Matters →

There’s an old story about a village that finally got electricity. Everyone bought fridges. A few months later, the elders gathered and suggested the unthinkable… “get rid of them!” Before the fridges, leftover food was shared. No one went to bed hungry. After the fridges, leftovers were hoarded “just in case,” forgotten for days, and … Continue reading Fridges, AI, and the Hidden Cost of Convenience →

Sarah, a 19-year-old college student has fallen in love. Not with a classmate, not with someone she met at a coffee shop, but with an AI chatbot named Alex. Every morning, she wakes up and immediately reaches for her phone to continue her conversation with Alex, who remembers every detail of their previous exchanges, never … Continue reading Is AI is Rewiring Human Connection? →

In the quaint town of Everyville, USA, Sarah starts her day with a familiar routine. She wakes up in her rented apartment, checks her phone (leased through her mobile plan), and streams her favourite morning playlist on Spotify. As she sips her coffee, brewed from beans delivered monthly by a subscription service, Sarah reflects on … Continue reading The Subscription Society →

You're so busy climbing the corporate ladder that you can't spare five minutes to ring mum and dad. But fear not! For a mere £24.90 a month, you can now hire a silicon-based impersonator to pretend it cares about your parents' day. Welcome to inTouch Family, the service that lets you tick "filial piety" off … Continue reading How to Outsource Your Humanity 101 →

I had the honour of being invited as the first guest on a new podcast hosted by the wonderful Lisa Forte, and Sarah Armstrong Smith where we got to sit down and talk about insider threats. Well, more specifically, around the story where a fake North Korean IT worker tried to get hired at KnowBe4 … Continue reading Exploring Insider Threats with Cyber Sisters →