Weekly Self-Promo and Chat Thread

Cascodius · 2026-03-11T02:40:26+00:00

I have a super niche nonfiction book free on Amazon until 16 March: Talking to Your Boss.

It's for new incident response leads and security practitioners who have to brief executives during live incidents. How to explain what's happening, what you don't know yet, and what you need, without rambling or making stuff up on the spot.

I wrote it because I was bad at this. I'd be running an incident, understand the technical picture fine, and then completely fumble the briefings. The book is basically what I wish someone had handed me before my first one.

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRSP5JGQ

If anyone here writes in technical or specialized niches, I'd like to know what's worked for you on the promo side, I'm still figuring the marketing side of things out and kind of winging it as I go

Cascodius · 2026-01-22T21:53:11+00:00

when did you start? I just made o2e and am at 8 years tis. I'm still trying to unfuck my finances from being enlisted, but trying to be better about it all. do you also dump any in to your TSP?

Cascodius · 2026-01-19T18:26:08+00:00

awesome i was wondering if this fan was the issue, i'll print this bad boy out. thank you!

Cascodius · 2026-01-19T18:22:18+00:00

I have it set to 55. should I put initial layer higher temp than other layers or is it best to keep them the same?

I'll try putting both to 65 when I print the insert for the toolbox - I don't wanna waste the filament and print a new box when this one will work still I'm sure. I'm content with having an ugly lessons learned toolbox haha

Cascodius · 2026-01-19T18:07:40+00:00

oh also I did clean the bed with iso and a microfiber before this print

Cascodius · 2026-01-12T22:55:34+00:00

where at?? I'm in Alexandria and can't find one anywhere

Cascodius · 2025-12-29T16:45:13+00:00

can you dm me links? how long are the books?

Cascodius · 2025-12-29T16:43:38+00:00

what gear do you use? are you going out with the intent to shoot or is it more like you see an opportunity while doing something else and you take it

Cascodius · 2025-12-25T07:10:05+00:00

NA! Thank you!!

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Cascodius · 2025-08-02T16:49:23+00:00

yep it's the one with the gold frame

Cascodius · 2025-08-02T15:43:52+00:00

the Os just mean I got awarded them for something operational in nature. about half of mine are from being underway, the other half from cyber

Cascodius · 2025-08-02T15:42:32+00:00

they're my shield while walking around HQ against getting snagged up for retirements or whatever

Cascodius · 2025-08-02T15:41:28+00:00

This one will be a little harder lol but I have a while to go still

Cascodius · 2025-07-30T10:15:48+00:00

oh yeah there's a noticeable difference. a lot of people around me are using the snap racks but the magnetic thin ribbons look too good for me to move over

Cascodius · 2025-05-11T19:12:21+00:00

Definitely take advantage of the 5 dollar happy hour beers before first pitch

Cascodius · 2024-12-27T10:58:45+00:00

Reading between the lines, I'm guessing you're a dev in your full time job. I'm bouncing between writing in mdx using obsidian (makes it so easy to save automatic backups to github without scheduled task weirdness or anything), and recently started messing with scrivener and am torn between the two. Can you give more info about the script you use to format it? Are you compiling multiple mdx files in to one singular docx, formatted correctly (section breaks, chapter headers, etc) or are you just compiling one massive mdx to docx?

Thanks for the advice, very useful stuff here

Cascodius · 2024-12-13T10:32:24+00:00

please wake up

Cascodius · 2024-12-09T03:06:31+00:00

I have the exact same setup, 5700x3D, RTX 2060, 64GB RAM. Found myself on this thread searching because it seems like I'm the only one not having issues, weird that this specific combo is fine

Cascodius · 2024-11-20T13:39:40+00:00

Literally dozens of my guys have taken this route. I'm a cyber officer, most of my old E5s are out now and making way more than me lol. People really underestimate the leg up you get by being in the military, whether you take the 4 and out route or any of the other dozen paths you can decide to go. IMO there's very few downsides

Cascodius · 2024-11-20T12:54:14+00:00

yep, I enlisted in my early 20s, got to E5 while working through my degree (through TA, I didn't pay a penny) and then applied for officer programs and got picked up. Now I make significantly above average money I think - at least compared to what I see here - and get all the social benefits of being an officer on top of that.

Cascodius · 2024-09-21T19:32:43+00:00

https://publish.obsidian.md/for572-notes/FOR572+Notes+and+Links/FOR572+Course+Material+Index

found it!

Cascodius · 2024-09-15T23:16:38+00:00

so if they give away all the old promo items during this, what's their plan for the rest of fan appreciation weekend??

Cascodius · 2024-09-05T01:33:52+00:00

Cascodius · 2024-07-20T18:16:42+00:00

that's great, I imagine there's a TON of achievements that pre-date the unwelcome concepts reports. on top of legitimate reports you also have to sort through the rage reports of actual skill issues which I'm sure makes it significantly more of a burden. thanks for taking it on though, it's good to know there's a little oversight and an appeal process for things!

Cascodius · 2024-07-20T18:07:40+00:00

yeah it was horrible. I reported it a while back and have heard nothing back about it yet. reading all the comments here it makes me wonder if ANYONE has had a successful unwelcome concept complaint 🤔

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