Work-life balance

Interview About My Job Change

May 10, 2013 Work-life balance

My good friend Anthony M. Freed did a write-up about my job change. He has some fun at my expense along the way, which I will surely get him back for. Read it on Tripwire.

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Leaving CSO, Heading to Akamai

May 6, 2013 Work-life balance

After five excellent years as senior editor and managing editor of CSOonline.com and CSO Magazine, I’m moving on. Starting June 3, I’ll be a senior program manager at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, Mass. I’m stoked about this new challenge. Mood music:  Given To Fly – Mexico City 12/10/05Pearl JamPearl Jam Live I’m announcing my new [...]

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How To Avoid Becoming #RSAC Roadkill

February 19, 2013 Coping tools

Last year was a first: I had a stay-at-home vacation a week before flying out to a big conference. We took the kids to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and did a lot of relaxing. It worked so well I’m doing it again. Mood music: The kids are on their February school vacation, [...]

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Why I Skipped #ShmooCon — Again

February 16, 2013 Family

Like last year, a lot of people have asked me why I’m not at the ShmooCon security conference in Washington D.C. After all, it is one of my favorite events. Mood music:  Stay FrostyVan HalenA Different Kind Of Truth Simply put, it’s too close to the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco the week after [...]

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Screw You, Las Vegas — And Thanks To Good Friends

July 30, 2012 Addiction

The author travels to Las Vegas on business, his addictive personality is put to the test and some good friends carry him through it mostly unscathed. Mood music:  Given To Fly – Mexico City 12/10/05Pearl JamPearl Jam Live As locations go, Las Vegas is the absolute worst for a guy like me. I have a [...]

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The Job Performance Review

February 3, 2012 Job discrimination

A confession that probably won’t shock you: I used to turn into a pile of jelly each year when it was time for the job performance review most employed people endure every 12 months. Mood music: I bring this up because my annual review is Monday. Today I’m supposed to turn in my self-evaluation. And [...]

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THE OCD DIARIES, Two Years Later

December 7, 2011 Addiction

Two years ago today, in a moment of Christmas-induced depression, I started this blog. I meant for it to be a place where I could go and spill out the insanity in my head so I could carry on with life. In short order, it snowballed into much more than that. Mood music: About a [...]

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Learn From My Mistakes

November 4, 2011 Addiction

In all my efforts to get sane a few years ago, I did a lot of stupid things. I’m sharing it with you here so you don’t make the same mistakes: Mood music: http://youtu.be/l4Xx_vjGnlo –Don’t try to control your compulsive binge eating problem by fasting. You won’t make it through the morning, and then you’ll [...]

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Finish What You Started

September 28, 2011 Adventures in writing

Funny thing about people who suffer from serious mental illness: They tend to make all these big plans but never really follow through with anything. I don’t fault them. For one thing, they have an illness. Also, I used to be just like them. Mood music:  Finish What Ya StartedVan HalenOU812 Watching the start-stop-start-thud behavior [...]

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What’s The Worst That Can Happen?

August 31, 2011 Depression

A friend keeps telling me about big fears he has of not getting the mortgage paid and being homeless. There’s no danger of that happening. But OCD and reality rarely see eye to eye. Mood music: He wrote: My Biggest Fear is that we will lose our house because we will get too far behind [...]

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