Staying motivated and keeping focus

[cmerkel at gmail.com (Chris Merkel)]

For me, the biggest thing I had to overcome was realizing that if I focused
on everything that could (and in most cases _should_) be done, I get
completely overwhelmed. So, just give up trying to swim faster than the
river's currant, and swim at your own pace instead.

How about this - you're putting together your material for an audience, so
how about letting your audience inform what you're going to work on? Perhaps
having a clear mandate from the people who use your information and find it
valueable will help supply the motivation to get done the things that
provide the most value to everyone. Digg model, web poll, whatever. Then
commit yourself to a reasonable timeframe (because you do have a day job and
need to step away from the KB for awhile) and commit to meeting it.

BTW - no amount of drugs, whether it's caffine, nootropics, nicotine, ritlin
or meth, is going to help, unless you actually have a specific, clinical
ADHD diagnosis. Based on what I know of the literature (and I've looked -
focus is a constant problem for me) most compounds that people think improve
concentration only increase your *perceived* concentration, and don't
actually correlate to actual results, when studied in a well-controlled,
double-blind fashion.

Meditation (which is the eastern-woo way of getting some rest) also helps.

- Chris Merkel


On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>wrote:

> Nice idea Robin, here is my current notes list for video ideas. It's not
> very detailed, just enough for me to remember it's something I want to work
> on.
>
>
> SENF and Spider3  http://pauldotcom.com/wiki/index.php/Episode113
> Nessus
> Phishing
> WebGoat
> De-Ice
> Sniff a Tor exit point
> What the hell is HIPAA
> WSUS
> Freeware I like.
> 7-zip
> Rouge DHCP
> Flood and get past static ARP (macof or ettercap -M port:remote)
> Pagefile swapspace wipe (photorec) "Shutdown: Clear virtual Memory
> pagefile" hiberfil.sys
> DNS redirect with netfilter maybe
> http://www.bindshell.net/tools/beef/
> CSRF
> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~sstamm/papers/driveby-bummers-slides.pdf<http://www.cs.indiana.edu/%7Esstamm/papers/driveby-bummers-slides.pdf>
> icesword
> Hacme books install
> c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis -i
> Nagios 3
> Bastil Linux
> Icesword and Rootkits
> Pass the hash
> http://oss.coresecurity.com/projects/pshtoolkit.htm
> Karmetasploit
> evilgrade
> samurai.iso
> URLScan (change server type)
> Nepenthes/Honeypotd/honeytrap
> exploit-me
> firecat
> pwnos
> WPAD + NTLM Hijacking + Metasploit
> gns3
> SIW affiliate
> http://www.paglo.com/opensource/packetyzer
> IP6 layer 2 arp fun
> John the ripper.
> Spiderfoot
> Domain Dossier
> Add DNS lookup, and ports to my IDS
> Netdude/TCPReplay
> thp tiny honeypot
> wmic qfe
> tamperdata
> http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/index.html
> http://www.systemtools.com/hyena/report.htm
> Sheila Honeypot
> Metasploit scanner/http/lucky/
> waf3
> rat proxy
> PythonCE
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/armediaincident/
> ipconfig /displaydns
> app to get remote shells
> netsh wlan
> reg key forceguest must be defined on target xp box for wmic to work
> remotely
> psexec, sc(serverfiy this), at
> LordPE packer PE Scrambler
> CeWL http://www.digininja.org/cewl.php
> pw-inspector
> fgdump
> http://pentestmonkey.net/cheat-sheets/
> http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html
>
> http://darkoperator.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-get-terminal-from-shell-in.html
> Online AV checks
> http://www.virustotal.com/
> http://virusscan.jotti.org/
> http://www.cwsandbox.org/
> http://www.threatexpert.com/
> Nirsoft cleanafterme
>
> Windows 7 Bitlocker To Go
>
> NetWitness
>
> Block all traffic to an ip
> HoneyBOT
> assagai
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2010/1/9 Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>:
> > > Hi all,
> > >     I find myself sitting, listening to security podcasts (which in and
> > of
> > > itself is not bad) and playing desktop tower defense. I have tons of
> > ideas
> > > for new videos and articles but can't get myself motivated to start on
> > them.
> > > What do others do to stay motivated and keeping focused? I'm looking
> > into
> > > nootropics, but am a bit skeptical.
> >
> > And another thought, if you want to share some of those ideas help
> > from other people may help you get them started or take some of the
> > pressure off so you can focus on the ones you want and not worry about
> > the others.
> >
> > Robin
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- Chris Merkel
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