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I’m fascinated by learning why and how certain things work. The problem I’ve had is the difficulty in deciding what information I should learn, and what information I should block out. When you’re always wondering about the systems and processes going on, it’s easy to get caught up in technical details and doing too many things you shouldn’t be doing. This will slow your progress and deviate your focus. Our time is valuable. Be selective on what information you should learn yourself vs what information you should let others learn, or risk falling into a downward spiral of costly, time-wasting nothingness. Read more…

With so many stories of accounts being compromised and hacked, I decided to ditch my habit of using 1 or 2 hard-to-guess passwords and figure out how to create strong passwords that are different for every site, but are still easy to remember and unreadable to a hacker. Why? Because I don’t like the idea of the same password for every single site. If one account is hacked, someone could have access to all of your accounts.

I have over 200 online accounts and counting, mainly because I test and play with a ton of online services. Here’s how I successfully remember them ALL, even though each one is different. Read more…