I know opening social media right now can feel like an open invitation to a never-ending scroll of rage. I’ve been avoiding much of it myself for the last few weeks, busying myself with travel and projects instead for the benefit of my mental health. I know, however, that the internet can be a source
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Worth Reading – Don’t Let AI Transcription Sink Your Ship
We should always be thoughtful about what we say in meetings and how we say it. It’s just being professional, and now that we can also assume there will be a record of it, we have yet another reason!
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Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 26, 2025
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Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 19, 2025
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How many people are sharing confidential data with shadow AI tools?
Do your users understand the risks and how to use AI safely?
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Worth Reading – Americans Are Overworked. Could AI Change That?
Juliet has written an entire book on the subject, so you should at least read the full article above. As mentioned in the paragraph I quoted above, though, what you’ll find are the things that would allow the American workplace to allow for translating the increased productivity in to fewer hours worked; universal healthcare, overtime…
Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 12, 2025
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Worth Reading – Managing a remote team of engineers
You may notice how frequently the words “intentional” or “on purpose” appear. With remote teams, nothing is left to chance encounters, because there aren’t chance encounters.
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The simple things that improve employee mental health
Employees want to know they are being treated fairly and are trusted to find the best way to accomplish the required work. That doesn’t seem so difficult. Both of these things reduce the risk of burnout, a phenomenon that is becoming a workplace hazard everywhere. You would think they were asking for the impossible from…
Worth Reading – The Remote Reality Check
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Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 5, 2025
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Worth Reading – Layoffs Cast a Long Shadow
Layoffs aren’t good for business. They are detrimental to employees, even those not directly affected, and I would add that they also don’t benefit customers.
The only benefit large corporations seem to get from layoffs is an increase in stock price, and that might be everything you need to know about the priorities of the…
Worth Reading – First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That’s Stealing Your Emails
Do you know what your agents are doing?
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Shared Links (weekly) Sept. 28, 2025
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AI Tech “Discovers” Personalized Ads
OpenAI isn’t calling the “feedback” advertising yet, because they haven’t started selling ads to businesses, but does anyone think that isn’t coming next?
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Worth Reading – The Hidden Job Market: Why 70% of Roles Are Never Posted Online – and How to Access Them
Which, of course, brings us back to the original point about these kinds of jobs. You need to know people. Employers need to have employees who know people, as well as know people themselves, and job seekers need to have connections. The only way this works is if you get referrals, and you only get…