Cybersecurity · by Mariana Costa · 2026-09-16

My 6-month experiment with networking from my quiet Sunday notes

Part of me wanted the fancy version with all the tools. The better version was boring: one notebook, one reminder, and a willingness to be clumsy with the routine for a while.

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Kabir Khan · 12 likes

Big fan of this approach. The Cairo example makes it feel concrete.

Urban Fern · 2 likes

I am cheering for this update. I am curious whether privacy still feels good next month. Naming things remains undefeated as the hardest problem.

Silver Comet · 5 likes

@urban-34 Can you expand on that a bit?

Daan Bakker · 1 likes

That last line is excellent. My friend tried it in Madrid and had the opposite result. Naming things remains undefeated as the hardest problem.

Isha Menon · 0 likes

This is the kind of disagreement I like.

Quiet Runner · 0 likes

My first thought was cost, then time, then whether I would remember to do it. This would have saved me a lot of trial and error.

Arif Hasan · 2 likes

Can you expand on that a bit?