Gonçalo Magalhães

• In the Competition for Your Attention, You Rarely Win

  March 23, 2026 · 7 min read

  Social media and tech apps will do anything to capture your attention. In this silent war for the most valuable resource, willpower isn't the way out.

• The Triumph of Generalists Over Specialists

  March 16, 2026 · 8 min read

  With the advent of LLM agents, being a 'Specialist' is losing relevance. The Generalist, more flexible and adaptable, gains the advantage in the new business reality.

• Security Culture and Laziness

  July 9, 2024 · 6 min read

  Traditional security awareness programs have failed to achieve their intended effectiveness. Humans are lazy, and the Security Culture needs to account for that.

“Binance says no key leaked, but its own systems signed the withdrawals, and once software with signing permissions is compromised, it doesn’t really matter if the key itself is secure. [...] That doesn’t mean crypto itself isn’t safe.”

“At the end of the day we will have to wait and see.”

“CX is important for any service provider [...] given the nature of what is at stake: trusting the provider with some of the most sensitive data and access to the customer. So a proper service experience is adamant about building that trust and making the customer not just be secure, but also feel secure. [...] A good provider will help the customer leave the engagement with a more robust company security framework, not just know the details of the incident it suffered.”

“Everything has flaws. What matters is what a flaw gets you, and here it gets you private images of people inside their own home. So the question is not what the manufacturer intends but what the design allows when something goes wrong. [...] The cloud service and the update channel are the two worth worrying about, because compromising either one has the potential to reach every device the company has sold, not only yours.”

“I've taught crypto devs for many years. If you want to go from zero to hero in smart contracts, Mastering Ethereum is the definitive no-fluff guide I recommend above all to achieve that.”

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