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Zero to Zen: Instant, Easy Wins for Your Online Life

Tips and tricks for a totally zen online life, in terms of privacy, security, and cleanliness.

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If you are anything like me, you trial all kinds of new digital products, creating accounts here and there, and you probably keep a few email addresses around—or you have an overburdened, overtaxed poor Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail account that has suffered, but worked, faithfully through the years. It’s easy to get into a sticky situation, with a mess all over the place. And your computer! Man, you don’t even want to think about that poor sod… 🧟‍♂️

I was recently doing a bit of check-up on my online accounts and presence as I tend to do every year or so and thought it might be worthwhile to share some of my own tips, tricks, and philosophy around computer zen, since I know from experience that, to be honest, most people are a lot less of a structural fetishist than I am. I’m sure there will be a few nuggets here for most of you who want to reach the zen of online life!

We’ll go through three major areas—security, integrity, and cleanliness—with a number of proposed tasks for each.

Tighten your security posture

Updates, unloved but important

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Mikael Vesavuori
Mikael Vesavuori

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