> After a few years working in cybersecurity, I viewed EVERYTHING through the lens of “is someone lying to me?”

Oh thank you for highlighting that, I've had some instance where I'd suddenly have the urgent feeling that something I'm experiencing is a hoax and I couldn't tell why this suddenly surfaced back then, but I guess years of exposure to security does that to one.

I think initially I did it because I had high network privileges in my position at a company which had an immense amount of sensitive data on important companies. Kind of a deep thought exercise to be hyper vigilant in my position of responsibility.

Later, I think I stretched the thought exercise to start identifying new business opportunities (trying to find value in protecting against each of those things I identified).

At the same time I grew “professionally paranoid”, I was learning about epistemology and skepticism (to try to understand the cultural and political changes of the last decade). It’s been a wild ride.