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Slimed out Goonrigz chest carrier.

We’ve evolved from our dad’s fanny packs so get familiar.

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Merry Christmas


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This rig is constructed of a military messenger bag I bought almost 20 years ago in Canada.

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I’ve been working on this book for the last six months and it’s almost finished. I’d love to share the prologue with you and open it up to any feedback or comments.

Clearly you guys know how important this topic is to me, and how much I put into content creation, but that said I’m open to any thoughts you have on the writing.

Here goes…..


Prologue

Security Is Not What You've Been Taught to Think It Is.

When most people hear the word security, they picture authority. They imagine uniforms, commands, control—someone stepping in and taking charge. And that makes sense, because that's how security has been sold to us for years: through movies, viral clips, recruiting ads, and social media accounts that confuse presence with professionalism and force with effectiveness. 

But I want to offer a different way of looking at it. Security isn't about asserting authority; it's about denying the momentum of chaos. Once you understand that distinction, everything about how you approach this job begins to change.

Truth be told, I didn't arrive at this philosophy because it sounded good or because it was contrarian. I arrived at it because the standard version of security kept failing—over and over again—right in front of me. The dominant culture in private security tends to teach guards to act, be visible, be assertive, and prove legitimacy through posture and presence. 

It treats boredom as a problem, assumes that doing nothing means you're not doing your job, and ultimately equates compliance with success. The issue with that model, however, isn't that it's always wrong—it's that it produces guards that are technically correct but often ineffective! You end up with people trained to win interactions instead of de-escalating them, who unintentionally turn routine moments into unnecessary incidents. 

Some with deadly consequences.

Here's the part of this job most people don't want to admit: security failures rarely come from a lack of courage. In fact, they generally stem from a lack of restraint. They happen when a guard feels the need to do something to justify their presence, when patience would have achieved a much better outcome. 

They happen when respect becomes the goal rather than stability, and when authority stops being a tool and becomes personal. Hear me when I say this….the moment authority becomes personal…..professionalism starts to erode—quietly at first, then all at once.

What I learned—slowly, and sometimes painfully—is that the best security rarely looks impressive. In fact, most of the time, it seems downright boring. Calm posture. Minimal movement. No urgency unless it's absolutely required. The guards who last—the ones who don't rack up complaints or find themselves explaining their actions on camera—aren't the loudest or the most tactical. They're the ones who understand when to be visible and when to disappear, and who recognize that sometimes NOT DOING SOMETHING is the safest and most professional option available.

Understanding this is where my philosophy began to diverge. I stopped asking myself, "How do I control this situation?" and started asking, "How do I keep this from becoming something bigger than it needs to be?" 

That shift sounds subtle, but it isn't. When your goal shifts from dominance to stability, you stop chasing moments. You stop trying to prove legitimacy. You stop confusing movement with effectiveness, and you slow down, simplify, and create space…. most importantly, you allow yourself time to do the work that force and urgency often only make worse.

Now let's briefly talk about optics—because optics aren't politics, they're consequences. 

The reality is simple….Cameras don't care about intent, bystanders don't care about policy, and social media doesn't care about nuance. They only care about what something looks like in the moment it's captured. 
Now you can argue with that reality, or you can survive it.

Personally, I chose survival. 

Once I accepted that optics were inseparable from effectiveness, my entire approach changed. I stopped trying to look authoritative and started focusing on looking reasonable. I stopped forcing compliance and started prioritizing quiet, sensible, and respectful endings, because in security, if it looks bad, it is bad—not morally, but practically. 

Unfortunately, many guards find out after the fact that the consequences will be real, whether you agree with them or not.

What surprised me was what happened next. When I stopped defending security and started explaining it honestly, ESPECIALLY WHERE OPTICS WERE CONCERNED, people outside the industry began to listen—business owners, community members, even critics. Not because I was asking them to trust guards more, but because I was showing them what restraint actually looks like. I wasn't hiding behind policy or procedure; I was explaining judgment. And that shift is what carried my work beyond the industry and into the National spotlight. Not tactics. Not gear. But translation.

This philosophy —my philosophy —sometimes makes people uncomfortable—especially in the security industry. Unfortunately (especially for the industry), it challenges the ego, the assumption that action equals value, and the need to be seen as powerful to feel legitimate. More than that, it suggests something far more unsettling: that many of the incidents we blame on "bad people" are actually the result of bad frameworks. And unlike individuals, frameworks are much more complex to defend—and even harder to let go of.

Here's another hard truth: security isn't for everyone—and that's not an insult, it's a reality. If you need validation, this job will wear on you. If you need excitement, you'll eventually manufacture danger. If you need respect to remain professional, you will escalate when you shouldn't. But if you can tolerate boredom, operate without applause, and disengage without ego, security can sharpen you in ways few jobs do. Because it doesn't give you power—it gives you responsibility without insulation, and how you handle that responsibility says everything about who you are.

This fact is the main reason I've always said it's much easier to be a cop than a security guard. 

The standard security model teaches guards how to act. My model teaches guards to decide when not to. The standard model chases control, while mine prioritizes stability. The standard model creates stories; mine prevents them, and THAT difference matters, because the best guards don't leave behind highlight reels. They leave behind quiet shifts, uneventful reports, and environments that stayed calm. 

Those outcomes rarely get noticed—until the guards that ensure them are gone.

So if there's one idea I want to leave you with, it's this: 

Security is not the art of asserting authority; it is the discipline of denying chaos attention. And once you understand that—once you actually live it—the job gets quieter, the mistakes get fewer, and the impact gets bigger.

Not because you became louder, but because you finally learned when not to be.

-Atypical 

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Absolutely nothing……

Makes me happier, than to see you guys leveling up, getting promoted, and changing the narrative around our industry.

Love this.

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QUESTION OF THE DAY🤔

Alright, let’s switch it up.

Today is Ask Me Anything.

Security.
Life.
Work.
Mindset.
Mistakes.
Things you agree with. Things you don’t.

If you’ve ever wanted to ask me something—now’s the time. No filters, no soft questions required.

Drop your questions in the comments below.
I’ll be pulling from these and answering them in next week’s video uploads.

If you’re in security, ask what nobody explains…If you’re not, ask what you’ve always wondered.

If it’s uncomfortable, controversial, or real—that’s fair game!

Let’s have an honest conversation.

👇 Ask away.

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Question of the Day 🤔

Is it ethical for property managers to demand ‘zero homeless individuals on property,’ knowing the security guards—not social workers—must enforce it?


👇 Run it!

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QUESTION OF THE DAY🤔

Should Security companies provide a onboarding training class for the client and key personnel, to train them on better understanding the boundaries and restrictions on private officers before the start of service?

This would potentially cut down on misunderstandings and miscommunication in terms of what an officer can and can’t do.

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QUESTION OF THE DAY🤔

Aside from a pay rise, which of the following would you choose as a reward or incentive as a security officer?

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