Thread by @SwiftOnSecurity

I'm gonna do something stupidly earnest here.

I'm going to make an analogy as to what Taylor Swift is allowed to do with her seniority and autonomy. others would likely shy from.

And I want to make an analogy to my own experience watching and performing professionally in IT.

Taylor Swift is allowed to write about random characters in Shakespeare, and not care you have no idea who they are. She's allowed to write indulgent songs of purposely cringe lyrics about getting ravaged by soulmate.

But permission is something ENTIRELY different from audacity.

What Taylor Swift has is not permission. She has audacity.

The fact that she has transcended permission is sort of immaterial to my point.

So much of life is not about asking permission. It is having the audacity to simply fucking do it.

This is a constant across any subject.

Something I have been absolutely gobsmack by in my progression of career is how much audacity matters.

Even what I didn't understand it was what I was doing, it was always audacity.

Taking ownership of the helpdesk app core. Gaining permissions to GPO. And executing on it.

Everything I incrementally did before built but I would do later. And there was in fact never a question as to my propriety. It was simply obvious that I should take on this new role.

Because I had the audacity to suggest it. And thus it happened.

This is how everything has.

Shame is something you need to eliminate from your diet.

There's no shame that creates winners. Winners fucking do it. They understand the limits and exceed appropriately.

And I'm sorry that does not comport with your vision of how things should be. But that is how they are.