Crowdstruck

Crowdstrike's recent blow off their own foot effort was a delicious piece of irony. The cybersecurity experts delivering the outcome they promise to protect you against.

Isn't it a bit awful that I use the word delicious? Why do we get this guilty pleasure when something fails?

Is it because I'm glad it wasn't me?

Or is it because it is a powerful entity or person and they have been just taken down a notch?

I think it's a yes to both. And the reason is hardwired into us. We make judgments by comparing things. We are comparison machines. So we look for relativity.

Crowdstrike is having a terrible event. I'm not. That makes me feel better in comparison.

Crowdstrike is big and with a strong reputation, but now that reputation has been weakened. This bumps my status up relative to them. That feels good.

Does taking a sneaky bit of pleasure from someone's pain make me a bad person? It feels like it should be. But maybe not enough to stop me from doing it.

Which is ok if it remains a guilty pleasure, like the occasional ice cream when you are on a diet.

But if it becomes something I begin to seek to make me feel good and I lose the guilt, then I've abandoned the diet and moved into Ben and Jerry's. Not healthy.

Stay healthy.