Setting Expectations
- We are going to cover a lot today
- I’m going to share some things that you’ve heard before and some you’ve never heard.
- I’m going to share some things that you’ve heard before and some you’ve never heard.
- Take ownership of the choices you make.
- The ideas in this course are from my 30+ years in the tech industry
- These ideas are from research done directly around this course
- Don’t feel overwhelmed and that you need to do everything in this course right away.
- Listen to my ideas and modify them to fit your life.
- Listen to this course again and again and take action on small bits of it each time.
- Don’t do things just to do them.
- Make a plan and write it down
- Evaluate what you think needs to be addressed first and do it.
- Make sure your plan makes sense to you
- This course is designed to inform you on how you can create a more secure and private life.
- This course will try to balance convenience, privacy and security. You can decide which side you’d like to gravitate toward.
- This course will NOT give you a product reviews, but will inform you on why you might want to use that type of product.
- Example
- I won’t tell you that you need LastPass or 1Password. I will highly recommend you use a Password manager.
- Which password manager is up to you.
- Example
- I will give you examples of hardware and software that I use. You can choose to use different hardware and software choices.
- If you are currently using something that you feel comfortable with, don’t change it, continue to use it. Unless you feel that it’s not the best for you.
- If you are currently using something that you feel comfortable with, don’t change it, continue to use it. Unless you feel that it’s not the best for you.
- The idea is to create a secure and private environment with the tools you feel comfortable with, not duplicate exactly what I am using.
- I like Mac and Linux, but you prefer and feel comfortable with Windows
- I use Sophos for anti-virus, but you might like Malware Bytes better
- I use my own VPN, but you might like Proton VPN better
- I think linux is moderately easy to use, you might find it very uncomfortable to use.
- I use a pi-hole on my home network, you might even have heard of a pi-hole.
- The example is that it’s important to secure your coins using a hardware wallet. Not securing it with Ledger over Trezor. It’s the idea to always use a hardware wallet when you can.
- I use Ledger because it gives me the greatest number of coins that I can store.
- I use Ledger because I feel most comfortable with the company being in France.
- We all have particular reasons why we use what we use.
- My intention is not to debate one over the other.
- My intension is to inform you and let you make the best decision for yourself
- If you search the internet to find directions on how to do turn a feature on or off or how to disable XYZ and it doesn’t work… It might not be you.
- In my research I’ve found that about 25% of the searches that are supposed to help me resolve an issue never worked and as I dug into it even more, they could never have worked.
- Authors will update the date to make it appear that it’s a recent article when it could be years old.
- If directions don’t work for you, maybe it’s not you but the instructions.
- Sometimes these are in the first search results.