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The Faith We Sang Together
The Hymns That Remember Us Only after many decades do we begin to understand what certain songs have carried for us. A traditional hymn may have seemed ordinary when we sang it every Sunday morning. It was part of the…
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The Attacker Without Intent
Behind Every Attack For most of the history of cybersecurity, one assumption has remained so basic that it rarely needed to be stated. Behind an attack, there was an attacker. Someone wanted access, money, intelligence, influence, or disruption. Someone selected…
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The Brief Age of Everything
The Return of the Question of Meaning A curious criticism has emerged from within the technology industry. Some of the people who helped build Silicon Valley now argue that it has lost its purpose. They look at the extraordinary concentration…
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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.