Hey everybody! I’ve a brief submit at this time. We had a really busy weekend on the RB40 family. I labored on our taxes and RB40Jr had 2 Final (Frisbee) video games. The taxes weren’t too annoying as a result of I’m submitting an extension. Nevertheless, there have been extra taxes to take care of for Portland. We needed to pay the Artwork tax, the Portland enterprise tax (weblog), the Trimet tax (public transportation), the Homeless tax, the Rental tax, and the State revenue tax. I swear, Portlanders by no means met a tax they didn’t like. I completed them and paid on-line. That made life a bit less complicated. Now, I’m good for six months. Anyway, I’ve been following the Jack Teixeira case within the information and I need to share my thought of it.
Jack is in HUGE bother. He was a younger IT specialist with the Massachusetts Nationwide Guard. Over the previous couple of months, he acquired and shared lots of of presidency secrets and techniques on Discord along with his on-line buddies. He instructed them to not inform anybody. Yeah, like that’d work. In fact, somebody shared the paperwork on different platforms and it triggered a sensation within the information. The investigation rapidly led to Jack. Now, he’s in jail and can in all probability go to jail for a very long time. It appears he didn’t carry out a risk-reward evaluation earlier than changing into an inadvertent traitor.
Threat Reward Matrix
Right here is an easy risk-reward matrix that everybody ought to find out about.
It’s fairly easy. We make all kinds of selections every single day. Each choice has dangers and advantages. Most of them fall into the Protected Zone. Sunday, I drove RB40Jr to play Final. It value 3 hours of my time and a little bit of gasoline. He bought good train and a lesson on the best way to play on a group. Final is a no-contact sport so the danger of damage is minimal. That is the type of low-cost, low-benefit choice we make on a regular basis. Nevertheless, we’d like to consider it rather a lot more durable if the danger is excessive.
Jack went to the No-Go Zone and he’s paying the worth for it. It was silly to share secret paperwork to impress his on-line buddies. He achieved his goal and bought some avenue cred for just a few months. Nevertheless, this can be a meager reward for the danger he took. When you share secret paperwork on-line, it’s extremely prone to unfold. As anticipated, his on-line buddies turned on him as quickly because the FBI confirmed up.
He ought to have thought concerning the penalties earlier than breaking his safety clearance.
Keep away from the No-Go Zone
That’s a lesson for RB40Jr. We talked about it and he agreed that is high-risk, low-reward. It isn’t price it. I attempt to stay within the Protected Zone and the Win Zone. That’s the place life is sweet. As soon as in a protracted whereas, I enterprise out into Hazard Zone, if the reward is excessive sufficient to justify the danger. I retired from my engineering profession once I was 38. It was dangerous, but it surely was price it. However I keep away from the No-Go Zone like a plague. Why tackle a lot danger if the reward is inconsequential?
What about you? Do you thrive within the Dangerous Zones?
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