The Book of the Void

A Disciple's Understanding of the Brutalist Way to Fight Nonsense

This is a text about the Void. It's the part where things get deep—but not in a "we just bought a zero-trust solution" kind of way. Real deep.

The Void is that big nothing where the fluff dies. It's not on a slide deck. It's not in Gartner. It's not even in your CISSP textbook. It's the space beyond the buzzwords, where clarity lives. You get there by knowing what actually exists. You read logs. You know your environment. You know the weird process names. From that, you know what doesn't belong. That's the Void.

Most folks stare blankly at complexity and call it "the unknown", thinking it's mysterious. It's not. It's just a mess. Confusion is not enlightenment. It's just bad asset management.

Same goes for junior security folks (and some vendors): they hit something they don't understand and start quoting the Void. No, that's not Void. That's just "didn't RTFM."

To get to the real Way—the unfluffy, brutalist strategy—you have to do the work. Not "go to a webinar" kind of work. The actual work. Practice incident response. Break your lab. Build it again. Understand the difference between a false positive and a true threat, between "this alert looks scary" and "this alert is scary."

Sharpen your gut and your eyes. Know when someone's talking risk versus when they're just reading compliance checklists out loud.

When your dashboard is clean and your mind isn't bouncing between 15 alerts from tools you didn't configure... then you're getting close to the Void.

Until you get there, you'll mistake noise for truth. You'll think you're secure because your PowerPoint has traffic-light colors and your slide says "AI-powered."

But if you step back and look with brutalist honesty, you'll see how much is fluff, and how little is actually anchored to real security.

Know this: The Void isn't empty. It's quiet. It's efficient. It's the place where your policies make sense, your team is trained, and your tooling isn't a firehose of regret.

There is no evil in the Void. There's just simplicity. There's just good architecture. There's wisdom, and clean logging. Principle, and packet captures. The Way exists. But spirit?

That’s just you, finally breathing, in a room where the alerts make sense.