Corben Leo

In 2010, WikiLeaks released a classified document. A list of infrastructure critical to U.S national security. The government listed a Trans-Atlantic cable. 3 years ago, 19-year-old me gained ADMIN access to that cable (and another; shared codebase). 🧵Here's how I found it

@rohanrkumar @OpenAI Come on man

@hacker_ @OpenAI Wtf bro I just bought a bear mattress

Anyone from @OpenAI wanna hook us up w merch we are fans

@danromriell @MediaKing What in the AI slop garbage response is this

@MediaKing Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone. That restlessness, idea overflow, and aversion to being told what to do pushes some of us to build. For me, syndication and real estate is that path — solving problems, creating value, and controlling my time. If it’s the only option, lean in.

Don't start a business unless it's the only option. To be an entrepreneur, you basically have to be unemployable. Being told what to do makes you want to scream. You're overflowing with ideas on how to improve things you don't even own yet. You're just the right amount of broken.

@hacker_ NOW delphi.ai/mattpaulson

Many stock market websites are launching AI research tools that are not as good as ChatGPT or MCP servers that nobody will use. Meanwhile, we are doubling down on building an audience -- more advertising, more content, more video. Distribution is the moat. Tools do not matter.

@MehtabKarta @mocktailpapi @TJ_Bongiorno @Turnaroundartst Bought this book a few years back on your rec. Great read

@mocktailpapi @TJ_Bongiorno Enjoy! @Turnaroundartst now owes me at least 3.5 dinners!!

My list of must good books if you run a consumer brand: My definition of a good book is that it can immediately improve margins or revenue. No academic garbage :) Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman Default operating system for the companies in our portfolio. Implementing EOS fixes most issues at most businesses. Never used a formal management system? Start here. It’s faster to deploy than Scaling Up and a better fit for companies with lower revenue per head. Scaling Up by Verne Harnish EOS is a simplified version of Scaling Up. I prefer Scaling Up for companies with higher revenue per head. It also makes sense for larger companies. In consumer…this probably means companies doing over ~$50m - $75m or so. Monetizing Innovation by Madhavan Ramanujam Pricing should be designed into the product from day one. The book walks through how to figure out what customers value, what they’ll pay, and how to package and tier accordingly. If you’ve never had a thoughtful approach to pricing, this is a great book. Topgrading by Bradford Smart Topgrading is a great step-by-step instruction manual on how to hire and not mess it up. Every time we implement it, our success rate with hires goes up. The only downside is that the book is poorly written and too long. I’m guessing to please the publishers.. Scaling Compensation by Verne Harnish Reduce churn. Attract the right talent. Align your team around what matters. You’ll cut compensation-related discussions by 80% after launching a comp philosophy, and this book is a step-by-step guide on how to do it. Pair it with whichever operating system you run so your values flow into how you pay people. The Purchasing Advantage by Omid Ghamami One of the best books ever written on supply chain! I mean just go and look at the cover of the book. You can tell it’s going to deliver tremendous value because of how ugly it is. The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt Lean manufacturing principles wrapped in a story. It is gimmicky. If you run any operation with throughput constraints... manufacturing, fulfillment, customer service... this will reframe how you think about bottlenecks. I don’t love how the book is written. What could’ve been 50 pages is 300. The core content is excellent though, and plenty of people enjoy the story format more than a textbook. To the author’s credit, I guess there are a lot of L Profit First by Mike Michalowicz We don’t use Profit First at any of our companies. The system is about idiotproofing a business more than running it well. That said... if you’re new to running a business, don’t have a financial background, or keep ending the year wondering where the money went, Profit First is a great way to idiot-proof things. You allocate revenue into separate buckets (profit, taxes, owner pay, opex) the moment it comes in, instead of paying yourself whatever’s left at the end. It forces discipline. The Kevin Hillstrom Books (Merchandising, Customer Development, Fix It) Three short, tactical books. You can read all three in a day or so. I like these books because they’re short and to the point. There’s no dumb filler. They’re extra relevant to you if you run a business with a lot of LTV or a lot of SKUs, especially something like apparel. Kevin’s blog is the OG e-commerce resource online. It’s full of gold. Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman and Joe Knight No financial background? Read this. Double Your Profits by Bob Fifer You’ll find at least one thing that saves an insane amount of money. This is what I recommend whenever someone asks me how to quickly improve margin without a massive overhaul. — Here are a few turnaround focused books. I am including them because I think a lot of the advice is applicable to early-stage brands with less than $100m in revenue as well. They’re about focusing on what matters, managing cash, and how to operate when you are very constrained. Corporate Turnaround Artistry by Jeff Sands Loaded with tactical advice you can implement immediately. I recommend it alongside Double Your Profits for anyone that wants to expand their margins. Corporate Turnaround by Donald Bibeault A foundational classic. Bibeault’s quotes about what makes a great turnaround manager are some of my favorites in business literature. With that said maybe some of this is kind of redundant if you’re reading the Jeff Sands book and I think Jeff’s book is better. Reversing the Slide by James Shein Good tidbits, especially around legal basics. Less tactical than Sands. Still worth the read. Turnaround Management Association textbooks Two solid primers. One on management and strategy. One on the law. Less tactical than I’d like. Still worth picking up for comprehensive coverage of the space.

@TJ_Bongiorno "I sell mattresses but also hack things for fun"

Serious question for those that have founded/own a business(es) How do you answer “what do you do?” In casual conversation?

@nnwakelam Yeah lol

I once shelled one of the most secure military facing webservers on the planet at a hacking event by finding a file called logintest.aspx in the web root that would just generate you a global admin cookie for *.blank.blank. At the same event, someone shelled the same webserver using a coldfusion exploit from 2010. I’m not doubting that LLMs are amazing but the phrase “classified system” does a lot of heavy lifting here.

@Mike_kim714 Here was that drive on 18!

Back nine: -10 is so interesting. I hit 7wd to a flat lie. Laurie hit driver and got it on the upslope. I knew I didn’t need to worry about short so was trying to land anything just on the green. It ended up landing about 4 steps on from 60 yds to the front and barely stayed on the green. 😮‍💨. Narrowly missed the birdie. -11… It was playing really tough today. Hard off the left and into the wind. I hit two decent shots to leave myself a 5 footer down the hill. 11 green sits quite high and the wind is just whipping. It was a left center putt but with the wind blowing hard right to left, I decided to play it straight and the wind took over and went way left. I had 4 ft coming back. It was a right center putt, and now with the wind off the left, I played it straight and the wind stopped, and missed my putt left. 🤦🏻‍♂️ The way it goes sometimes. -12 and 14 were difficult tee shots and I missed them just barely. Had a tough time with my second to leave longer par putts. Made a great one on 12 but missed it on 14. Really wish I could have 14 back as that pin was sitting on a nice bowl. -18 I hit a drive 405 yds lol. Down with a slight right to left, hit a high draw and only had 100 to the pin. I’ve been hitting 5i the last two days. But that green is really firming up as I landed my shot pin high but went 40 ft past.

Wind is whipping! Let’s see some carnage #UsOpen

1) Asserting that golf is selfish and “he earns money” doesn’t do much for your argument 2) You’re conflating why he plays golf with how he tries to live and act while playing it. He never says he golfs as a spiritual practice to be “close to God” or that earning money brings him close to God. He says God has given him this talent, it is his vocation and he intends to honor God through how he competes. He commits to carry himself and compete in a manner that is pleasing/glorifying to God. Loving golf and earning money from it doesn’t contradict that. “whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” - 1 Corinth 10:31

@hacker_ @fried_egg_golf Because he plays golf because he loves the game and it will ensure generational wealth for his family for decades to come. Golf is a selfish pursuit. You won't find any teachings in the Bible about playing individual sports for money to be close to God.

"Scottie Scheffler was — and this is putting it gently — exasperated after his first round at Shinnecock, where he opened with a 2-over 72. He was trying to be chill, trying to keep it together, but he wasn’t hiding much. At one point, Smith put the club in Scheffler’s hands exactly the way he wanted the No. 1 player in the world to hold it, but Scheffler remained incredulous. "Scheffler usually hits balls at the end of his rounds, mostly to cool down or to do a little maintenance on his grip or alignment. But this was not that. It wasn’t an argument. And it wasn’t about the career grand slam, or any of the pressure that comes with chasing it. "It was a therapy session." - @KVanValkenburg on Scottie Scheffler post-round range session at the U.S. Open

@nws13 @fried_egg_golf Why is it a stretch? The two aren’t mutually exclusive. You can work a job and get paid while striving to “glorify God”, whether you’re a dishwasher or a competitive athlete

@fried_egg_golf Maybe the G Man upstairs feels he's been glorified enough by that one particular member of his flock for a while? I shouldn't make light, but my word that's a bit of a stretch for someone to say they play a solo game for hundreds of millions of dollars to glorify their God no?

Inde Navarrette x David Protein

@nashfaulk So clean...too clean😄

Didn't order enough...

@caseyjohnellis Not remotely a fair comparison here 😅 > “Submit your novel research through BC, we’ll attempt to clone you, and you’ll compete against your clone for your livelihood. Oh, and when/if you submit anything, it will feed your direct competition”

remember when bounty was super easy because easm hadn’t been born yet? and remember who was primarily responsible for turning that into an industry? awkward. i’m not involved directly with bugcrowd strategy or marketing (and haven’t been for a while) - but i’m quietly proud of it being “more than one slide”

@CardilloSamuel how could we get hooked when it won't do anything

anthropic's new model, Fable 5 (Mythos), drops off the subscription on june 22. the play is simple: get you hooked, then siphon your money. i've said that many times. the future is local inference, hence why i am so invested into it. yes, the results might be slightly worse, but you control your tokens, the reasoning, the weights. you stay independent.

@whoareme33 *was 😄

@hacker_ wtf you're claudemaxxing fr 😭

@whoareme33 ~10 max pro subs 😄

@hacker_ how many accounts do you have? :)

@v12sec cry about it probably, lots of us are stuck with 4+ week old crits in new state

we have a redis-cli preauth RCE. the poc works on latest (8.8.0) it's been stuck in hackerone triage for 11 days with no activity what should we do?🥺🥺🥺

@MartinShkreli have been using opus 4.6 with some success. chatgpt cyber (although I run into refusals)

what are the most cybersecurity-friendly models for identifying vulnerabilities right now? mythos isn't accessible, chatgpt cyber still refuses. what's out there that isn't a wimp?