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Hey, I'm Ryan!
I build tools for security and human performance. Train, protect, lead, respond.
Here's what I'm working on:
AI is moving at highway speed. Nobody has found the seatbelt yet.
In 1854, cholera killed 500 people in ten days in one London neighborhood. One doctor did the thing nobody else thought to do.
He mapped the dead.
Do what Snow did. Draw the map. One page: the near misses, the last year of "that was close," the thing they share.
Then find the default that kills the class. It usually already exists. You just never turned it on.
The most dangerous moment in an incident isn't the breach. It's the minute the room can no longer change its mind about what the breach is. The clearest recording of that moment I know isn't from security. It's a wildfire from 1949. Thirteen men died inside it.
Weick gave the move a name: drop your tools. There's a moment when the thing that made you good at the job becomes the thing that's killing you. The ones who don't make it are usually the ones who can't see the moment has arrived. (Weick, "Drop Your Tools," 1996)
$290M walked out of a crypto bridge this spring that did everything right.
Audited protocol. Official setup guide, followed to the letter.
The setup guide is what let the money out the door.
Stop assuming your controls work. Go break one on purpose.
State a hypothesis ("if the one thing this depends on is compromised, we detect and contain it"), then replay a real attack that already hit a peer one notch over and watch whether the alert fires.
Find the broken control before someone else does.
This bridge skipped one experiment. The full playbook, the checklist every buyer trusts and the five failures it can't catch, is here:
ryanlabouve.com/writing/zero…
