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Published · transcript-backedDaniel Miessler: preference
1 Jun 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup
“I mean, this is just a preference and a bias, but I think we should want a more integrated life because ideally the work that we should be doing is something that just inspires us and makes us happy, which is the same thing we're supposed to be getting from life.”
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- Daniel Miessler
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- preference
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- 1 Jun 2026
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- The Cognitive Revolution
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…I think it performs best, Yeah. I mean, it's going to be interesting to see how and and for me it's natural because I've kind of been an entrepreneur for a lot of my career and the blind between what's personal and professional is, you know, at times blurry. I'm like, you know, long time friends of a lot of people I've I've worked with and, but I, I don't know if that's again, it's kind of like the granola thing, Like is that something everybody's going to want or will people kind of want a like, you know, a LinkedIn and a Facebook kind of two different faces. I could certainly see some people preferring that. I think we both will and will want to more closely merge our lives. I I think we should. I mean, this is just a preference and a bias, but I think we should want a more integrated life because ideally the work that we should be doing is something that just inspires us and makes us happy, which is the same thing we're supposed to be getting from life. So I think we'll find that this work life barrier was kind of like an artefact of like old times. So I feel like that's the direction we should head into. But the AI isn't quite there yet, so if you go too crazy with that it might cross the streams in a way that hurts you reputation wise, right? Yeah. And that actually suggests some of the additional layers that I've built on over time since then as well. Because one big thing that I have felt limited by with everything I described so far is I'm not comfortable taking myself out of the loop. I'll do you know, I'll have it. And I will say almost got to this earlier and somehow we went a different direction. But how has it changed my behavior 1 is on calls, I'll sometimes now find myself asking a question with the idea that like, I want to get the answer on this in the transcript so I can make sure that I can get back to it later. And I, you know what? I've not asked those questions previously. I'm not sure. But I, I do have that sense in my mind that like, if this person says it now, it'll become something that is like durably accessible to me. And that's a pretty.…
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