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.