APX-V-0015
“I watched someone I care about make a terrible decision and I said nothing.”
Silence in the face of preventable harm is not neutrality, it's a choice. If you said nothing because you were afraid of the conversation, that fear served you, not them. Protection sometimes requires uncomfortable words.
Your Practice
It is not too late. Reach out to this person and say what you didn't say, clearly, without blame, from a place of genuine care. Start with: "I've been thinking about something I should have said." You don't control their response. You only control whether you showed up.
The Architects
“It is our conviction that if we are to live in a world with this kind of continuously mutating cyber offense, so too should we live in a world with continuously adapting cyber defense.”
Nik Seetharaman, "Adapt or Die: Generative AI & The Revolution of American Cyber Defense," Wraithwatch blog, October 25, 2023 (co-authored with Grace Clemente and Carlos Más)