Original Article: How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Minder soon found more work. Sometimes it was a prominent company facing a multimillion-dollar ransom demand, and the negotiation took weeks. Sometimes it was a small business or a nonprofit that he took on pro bono and tried to wrap up over the weekend. But GroupSense rarely made money from the negotiations. Some ransomware...

Original Article: The Lazarus heist: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- In 2016 North Korean hackers planned a $1bn raid on Bangladesh's national bank and came within an inch of success - it was only by a fluke that all but $81m of the transfers were halted, report Geoff White and Jean H Lee. But how did one of the world's poorest and most isolated countries train...

Original Article: Pearl Leff | In Praise of Memorization Try to add your own article? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- I once worked at a small company of insanely productive engineers. They were geniuses by any account. They knew the software stack from top to bottom, from hardware to operating systems to Javascript, and could pull together in days what would take teams at other companies months to years. Between them they were more productive than any...

Original Article: How I got to 200 productive hours a month Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Two years ago I could spend a week not working because I was avoiding some task. One year ago it was 100 to 120 hours of work monthly. Nowadays I do around 200 productive hours each month, which is over six hours of productive time daily. All this time I have been working from home, mostly on the same project. This guide...

Original Article: Atomic Habits for Product Managers Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- James Clear's Atomic Habits provides a compelling rationale for why frequently practicing small and easy to do atomic habits consistently compounds in benefit to ultimately generate incredible results. It then goes on to provide a comprehensive guide for reliably forming such atomic habits, regardless of the level of self-discipline...

Original Article: Why is selling software so weird? Try to add your own article? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. If you squint enough, building software looks a lot like building a house. In both cases, you start with a problem and Frankenstein together various components using rules of thumb until you have something that looks like a solution. Because the crafts look so similar, you’d be forgiven if you thought the business models behind building software and...

Original Article: Ideas Want to be Shared Try to add your own article? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- I have contrarian ideas on intellectual property. I’ve come to think that the natural home of ideas is in the commons, that they should not be “owned” for very long. My perspective is neither widespread, nor part of current law, nor have I seen it articulated elsewhere, but I think it might be a better alternative, so I am presenting it here. The default...

Original Article: Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- I've long believed that the most innovative products are built by teams who innovate on the very process by which they develop those products. And it's why I've always been a student of companies that consistently deliver innovation to the market. It's no wonder I loved reading The Everything Store sharing the story of Jeff Bezos...

Original Article: Miscellanea: Understanding the War in Ukraine Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- This week, I want to break from our usual format and respond to the fairly unusual global events. I expect a lot of my readers are trying to get a grasp on what is happening right now in Ukraine and in my own experience the traditional news media often struggles to adequately explain complex issues that go beyond simply...

Original Article: Why founders end up unemployable Try to add your own article? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- In most entrepreneurs’ lives, there comes a point where they jokingly claim to be “unemployable.” It usually happens in the middle of a conversation about the benefits and drawbacks of having a boss. After setting out on their first self-directed business journey, many founders have a hard time imagining themselves back on the clock as an employee. ...