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  1. It's a Tool
    It's a Person
    It's a Hypervigilance Problem

    The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

    Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

    We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

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  2. A couple more news from #InfosecurityEurope25
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    🎙️ These Aren’t Soft Skills — They’re Human Skills
    A post–Infosecurity Europe 2025 conversation with Rob Black and Anthony D'Alton

    Yes, Infosecurity Europe 2025 is behind us, but the most important conversations are still unfolding — like this one.

    I (Marco Ciappelli) reconnected with Rob Black (yeah, I kicked Sean Martin, CISSP out again… temporarily 😄) and welcomed Anthony D’Alton to dive into something we all know is important but rarely define properly: so-called soft skills — or as we prefer to call them… human skills.

    From communication and trust to team resilience and real-world training, this conversation is a practical look at what truly makes cybersecurity teams work — and why these “intangibles” aren’t soft at all.

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  3. > Hi guys! I’m a technical Data Analyst in a well established Fortune 500 company, in my job I usually work with databases to build queries and prepare reports for our users. In the past 2 years my team and I had a tremendous impact in the business with several successful key projects, and we received very positive feedback from the management during our yearly review. We are talking about an impressive performance that it’s very unlikely to be repeated again in the future, a mix of luck, great decisions and technical efforts as a team.
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    > I was expecting a substantial raise but my manager, who have been promoted recently and it’s the first time she’s doing this, told me that the salary caps are defined by our Headquarter’s HQ by looking at the average salaries for our roles. My salary is already high based on these statistics. There is only room for a 0.5% increase, which I approved, because it’s better than nothing, but left me with a bittersweet aftertaste. My manager felt sorry and promised that for the next year she’ll fight for more.

    pca.st/episode/045ac2bd-5e8b-4

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