AI Blackouts Are Coming: How Law Firms Can Maintain Enterprise Operations During Agent Grid Failure 2025
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Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
Cloudflare wants AI companies to get permission to crawl websites.
Who (and Who Not) To Ask for a Reference
What's almost as important as your resume and cover letter, and much more likely to slip your mind during the job search process?
The AI Strategy Divide in Law: Thomson Reuters Survey Says Strategic AI Adoption Is the Key to AI Success
A study out today from Thomson Reuters reveals a stark division within the legal profession: When it comes to reaping the benefits of AI, organizations with clear AI strategies are dramatically outper...
What Happens at Home Doesn’t Stay There: Why Family Mental Health Is a Workplace Priority
Employee wellbeing doesn’t start at the office. It starts in the home—in the emotional ripple effects of caregiving, conflict, and stress.
To Change Your Life, Start With Your Algorithm
You are what you scroll, so changing what you click could change your outlook.
Your 'Culture' is a Lie Until You Fund Mental Health
Mental health should be treated as a core component of your company's infrastructure, not an afterthought or perk. Neglecting it leads to diminished productivity, burnout and high employee turnover.
This Isn’t Law and Order. It’s Narrative Control.
The White House is using AI, doctored footage, and viral outrage to sell you a fake story about the LA protests.
L&D's Role in Employee Retention: Developing Career Pathways That Keep Talent Engaged
Boost employee retention with upskilling and L&D strategies that keep your workforce engaged and aligned with business goals.
ChatGPT can now connect to Outlook, Teams, Gmail, Google Drive, and other services
ChatGPT can now integrate with external services like Outlook, Teams, Gmail, and Google Drive to access real-time data for more relevant responses.
Gen Z, millennials: A college degree is a waste of money and time
New research shows that many workers, especially younger ones, feel their degrees aren't needed as employers shift toward skills-based hiring over formal education.
LLMs are Making Me Dumber
Here are some ways I use LLMs that I think are making me dumber:
When I want to build a Chrome extension for personal use, instead of actually learning and writing the JavaScript, I Claude-Code the whole thing in a couple of hours without writing a single line of code. Instead of taking the usual route which would leave me with more actual familiarity with JavaScript, I now shortcut the process, leaving me with barely any JS knowledge despite numerous functioning applications. When I need math homework done fast, I feed in the relevant textbook pages in context, dump my problems into o3/Gemini, and check its answers for sanity instead of doing the problems myself. I cram before tests. (Yes, this is morally dubious and terrible for learning.) When I need to write an email, I often bullet-point what I want to write and ask the LLM to write out a coherent, cordial email. I’ve gotten worse at writing emails. My first response to most problems is to ask an LLM, and this might atrophy my ability to come up with better solutions since my starting point is already in the LLM-solution space. These are all deliberate trade-offs I make for the sake of output speed. By sacrificing depth in my learning, I can produce substantially more work. I’m unsure if I’m at the correct balance between output quantity and depth of learning. This uncertainty is mainly fueled by a sense of urgency due to rapidly improving AI models. I don’t have time to learn everything deeply. I love learning, but given current trends, I want to maximize immediate output. I’m sacrificing some learning in classes for more time doing outside work. From a teacher’s perspective, this is obviously bad, but from my subjective standpoint, it’s unclear.
New OneDrive Prompt Could Mix Work and Personal Files
Microsoft is rolling out a new feature coming month that will prompt users to add their personal Microsoft account to OneDrive. This means that, when the user accepts, personal files will be synced to your
Microsoft’s layoff : How corporate downsizing is sparking a global mental health epidemic
Microsoft’s layoff : Layoffs are increasing stress and anxiety. Job loss impacts mental health. It affects families and relationships. People need sup
Why We Quickly Forget So Much of What We Learn
Start by writing more things down, and quickly, and then do this.
In the rapidly shifting world of work, many employees are unclear what’s expected of them
More workers have reported feeling disconnected from their organization’s purpose and unclear on how to meet expectations since the coronavirus pandemic changed the way we work.
A Simple Strategy for Copilot Adoption in the Workplace
Learn how to create a simple, effective adoption strategy for Microsoft Copilot that drives productivity, engagement, and long-term success.
Why Celebrating Your Own Achievements Matters To Your Career Journey
Feeling unfulfilled at work? Discover how owning your successes can improve your confidence and belief in yourself to help open new opportunities in your career.
Two ways AI hype is worsening the cybersecurity skills crisis
Expected to ease security teams’ workloads, AI is adding pressure, forcing them to govern and adopt it while managing existing responsibilities, often without proper training.
The great AI skills disconnect - and how to fix it
Exclusive: A new Workera report shows business leaders and employees are deeply split on AI upskilling. Bridge that divide, or else.
How to avoid sleepwalking into irrelevance in the age of AI
Let’s be real: most people in tech are still too chill about AI.
Uncertainty Kills Morale: How to Maintain Motivation Now
Times of uncertainty can lead to diminished morale in any team or organization. Here's how to spot the signs and what to do about it before it's too late.
CIOs recalibrate IT agendas to make room for rising AI spend
The rush to invest in AI has reconfigured IT’s priority list, exposing some organizations to future risks as legacy tech lingers, architecture updates get backburnered, and work with other emerging technologies peters out.
Let’s talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
Recently I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.” I’m extremely grateful to see th…
AI Cloud Adoption Is Rife With Cyber Mistakes
Research finds that organizations are granting root access by default and making other big missteps, including a Jenga-like building concept, in deploying and configuring AI services in cloud deployments.
Survey Finds Employee Mental Health Suffering From ‘Political Turmoil’ and ‘Economic Uncertainty’
Nearly 75 percent of workers reported mood drops, citing current events, crime and finances as their leading worries.
Not All Revolutionary or Garbage: A Moderate Take on AI
The extreme views on AI claim it’s either revolutionary or garbage. I have a moderate take on AI: It’s useful but doesn’t change everything.
How you can help others right now
This is a moment in time when many of us are feeling helpless. Colleagues, friends and workers across the country are losing jobs without notice, without any cushion of even one more day’s pay. If you’re like many in my network, you want to support these tal
SharePoint Agents PAYG costs
To get a better idea of the costs of using SharePoint Agents, I’d suggest you have a look at: the highlight being:Under the PAYGO model, customers are billed $0.01 per message. Each interaction wit…
Why Most Workplace Mental Health Programs Fail
Why do so many workplace mental health efforts fall short? What the most successful workplaces are doing differently.