Having read the article it sounds like Pat is more complaining that Intel would have been positioned to milk the AI cow if the previous CEOs weren't fucking idiots.
I get that you're trying to look at the potential positives of a situation. But your telling a group of people who are struggling to keep their heads above water how amazing it is they can hold their breath for so long. No shit we can hold our breath, the alternative is to drowned.
I think part of the challenge we face is a larger hurdle to get engaged with a task. So we either need something very interesting or stressful enough to capture our attention. But once it has our attention, it tends to have our full attention. Also we so frequently have to solve problems in a rush because we put it off until the last minute we are familiar with that mode of operation.
A VPN is going to offer better security. I would only use cloudflare if you need something to be open to the public. This is useful when you have non-technical users that aren't going to understand using a VPN.
Calendar on my phone. If a thing needs to happen it goes on the phone and a reminder is added for 15m to 1h before. Even things that don't need to happen at a specific time, add it to the calendar so I can plan out the day.
I have a Vivoactive 4 and it looks like this: