Keys to Reinvention

1. Leadership's will to invent and reinvent.
2. Acknowledgement that you can't fight gravity.
3. Talent that's hungry to invent.
4. Solve real customer problems.
5. Speed.
6. Don't “complexify”.
7. Use the platform with the broadest and deepest set of tools.
8. Pull everything together with aggressive top-down goals

* 2: When new and disrupting technology is there, competitors WILL use it.
* 5: You constantly need to feel an urgency.
* 6: Complexity slows you down and makes you less agile.

From keynote AWS re:Invent 2020

Use a VirtualBox Windows 10 guest as a jump host to a remote VPN

In some occasions you want to keep your host machine clean from dodgy VPN software. A solution is to use a virtual image as a jump-host (or stepping-stone). In the following steps you will learn how to use VirtualBox and a Windows 10 guest.

Termux on my Android One Nokia 6.2 smartphone running Android 9

Install Termux from the Play Store.

Run apt update && apt upgrade to make sure that certain handy tools are available.

Execute termux-setup-storage to ensure that permission to system storage is granted. Including other convenient stuff like symlinks to different storage folders.

To copy files from the phone to a PC, just use scp. On a Mac, make sure Sharing > Remote Login is enabled:

Then execute scp <source-file> <username>@<ip-address-target-pc>:<full-path-target-folder>

References:

• Termux wiki: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Main_Page
• Tips: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/use-linux-command-line-android-termux/