It's Not Nagging: Effective Communication is Deliberately Redundant
“I love repeating myself” – said nobody ever. When asked to repeat ourselves, we seem to fall on a spectrum from “I don’t like it” to “I dread it so much it makes my blood boil”. People generally don’t like repeating themselves. As software engineers, we run into this far too often, probably because we value efficiency. The DRY principle in programming also doesn’t help. We’re taught that repetition, at least in code, is a bad practice and can lead to maintenance nightmares.
Law Firms Start Training Summer Associates on Using Generative AI
Some Big Law firms are now making summer associates learn the ins and outs of generative AI as they begin integrating what’s considered to be a game-changing technology for the profession.
The Plan To Sunset Section 230 Is About A Rogue Congress Taking The Internet Hostage If It Doesn’t Get Its Way
If Congress doesn’t get Google and Meta to agree to Section 230 reforms, it’s going to destroy the rest of the open internet, while Google and Meta will be just fine. If that sounds stupidly counte…
What Companies Get Wrong About Skills-Based Hiring
In recent years companies have removed college-degree requirements from many of their job postings. They’ve done this for good reason: Talent is scarce, and requiring degrees eliminates almost two-thirds of workers from consideration, a disproportionate number of them Black and Hispanic. But there’s a problem: For every 100 of these new postings, fewer than four additional candidates without degrees are actually hired. The authors of this article argue that it’s time to do more to make skills-based hiring a reality, and they present six ways that companies and hiring managers can do so.
‘Law firms have conflated using time as a management tool with using it as a pricing tool,’ said Richard Burcher, a pricing expert and chair of the Virtual Pricing Director platform. And this goes …
A Business Case for Building Empathy, Trust, and Psychological Safety
Because of the link between empathy and organizational outcomes, the key actionable issue is whether improved empathy can be learned through coaching, training, or the establishment of explicit group norms. Accumulating evidence shows that individuals and teams can get better at empathy using specific techniques and interventions.
M365 Conference 2024 Session Schedule Disappoints Me
The M365 Conference takes place in Orlando, FL from April 28 to May 2, 2024. I have two sessions, but my attempts to find sessions that cover all of M365 failed
Global research from The Workforce Institute at UKG spotlights the critical role jobs, leadership, and, most of all, managers play in supporting mental health.
New data shows shortsighted companies will try to replace workers with AI
A new survey shows that 41% of senior executives at global companies believe there will be a reduction in workforce sizes as they adopt generative AI, contradicting the narrative of AI as a helper.
Adecco Group asked senior executives from 2,000 large companies worldwide to predict what they think will happen in the coming years. Of those, 41% said they expect to have small workforces in the next five years due to artificial intelligence.
Employees need AI skills — but what does that training look like?
And it’s not just a few companies here and there: it’s just about the entire working world. According to a recent report from PeopleScout and Spotted Zebra, about 90% of HR leaders believe that up to half their workforce will need to be reskilled in the next five years.
Collaboration Tools in the Legal Sphere: A Rising Trend
Explore the pivotal trend reshaping the legal industry: the growing reliance on collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack, and how they are influencing communication and data management in legal practices.
People in 20s more likely to be out of work because of poor mental health than those in early 40s
“The economic consequences of poor mental health are starkest for young people who don’t go to university, with one in three young non-graduates with a common mental disorder currently workless.”
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
It's probably time to switch. I've been hesitant because I have multiple profiles set up in Chrome, and have for years, but I think the investment in replicating that in Firefox might be worth it.
Switching away from Gmail might be a little harder though. Too many places have that email as my contact point. But, I do own multiple websites, there's nothing stopping me from starting to use those email accounts more.
The Making of a Myth: Big Tech, Billionaires, and the Wild West
Photo by Trace Hudson on Pexels.com By: Sofia Ellington When former Amazon CEO, and current billionaire, Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez appeared on the cover of Vogue in November 2023…
Initially, Federal laws encouraged early western homesteaders to settle by offering 160 acres of federal land for only the cost of an initial filing fee. Along with those 160 acres, ranchers and homesteaders were able to claim water rights and graze their cattle on public lands at no cost. The sense of ownership over public western lands increased, and some cattle ranchers began to erect barbed wire enclosures to keep out other competing users of the land, along with other tactics that created a hostile atmosphere that helped keep competition away.
After a long period of little federal oversight, the increasing enclosure of public land and environmental concerns over grazing practices spurred Congress to act.
Remote work can be challenging, but it can also be a fantastic opportunity to create a work environment that suits your needs and your well-being. Take the time to prioritize self-care, foster meaningful connections, and find balance in your life, both professionally and personally. You deserve it.
In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
How does a legacy test account grant access to read every Office 365 account?
In Thursday’s post updating customers on findings from its ongoing investigation, Microsoft provided more details on how the hackers achieved this monumental escalation of access. The hackers, part of a group Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard, gained persistent access to the privileged email accounts by abusing the OAuth authorization protcol, which is used industry-wide to allow an array of apps to access resources on a network. After compromising the test tenant, Midnight Blizzard used it to create a malicious app and assign it rights to access every email address on Microsoft’s Office 365 email service.
In Thursday’s post updating customers on findings from its ongoing investigation, Microsoft provided more details on how the hackers achieved this monumental escalation of access. The hackers, part of a group Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard, gained persistent access to the privileged email accounts by abusing the OAuth authorization protcol, which is used industry-wide to allow an array of apps to access resources on a network. After compromising the test tenant, Midnight Blizzard used it to create a malicious app and assign it rights to access every email address on Microsoft’s Office 365 email service.
