Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #46
Sorry for the delay in getting this out. Looks like the Revue site was down for well over 24 hours. Sigh, hopefully this doesn't become a thing and require me to move to a different service! Keep your fingers crossed, and enjoy this week's links!
Social Media
Linked: Because Vulnerable People Need Section 230, The Copia Institute Filed This Amicus Brief At The Eleventh Circuit — www.mikemcbrideonline.com The reason I added anonymity above is that is the other suggestion I see often about how to "clean up" social media. The theory is that if everyone had to use their real name and prove who they are, they'd behave better. If you've looked at Facebook or even LinkedIn lately, you might look at that suggestion with some skepticism. You'd be right to. But, more importantly, as they say above, vulnerable people need not only the freedom to speak, but the freedom to do it anonymously.
Keep Your RSS Fresh With Keyword-Based Feeds – ResearchBuzz — researchbuzz.me Over the weekend I found an interesting article at The Verge. In Your internet life needs a Feeds Reboot — here’s how to do it, David Pierce explores the ways you can give your algorithmic timelines a bit of a reset to make your social media better. He even, to my vast appreciation, mentioned RSS…
The Moral Panic Is Spreading: Think Tank Proposes Banning Teens From Social Media; Texas Rep Promises To Intro Bill | Techdirt — www.techdirt.com It truly is incredible just how much of a moral panic the media and politicians have created around social media. Once again, the actual research is basically inconclusive that social media is bad. If it were truly awful, it should be showing up in the data, but for the most part it's not. At all.…
eDiscovery and Legal Tech
Telling Your Team’s Story Through Metrics None of us are strangers to metrics—from performance to clustering to billing. B...
Search Term and Form of Production Dispute, but Let’s Not Forget How Predictive Coding Can Help – Bow Tie Law — bowtielaw.com ediscovery
Law Firms and Unstructured Data: A Disaster Waiting to Happen? | TechLaw Crossroads — www.techlawcrossroads.com I had an interesting discussion recently with Peter Baumann. Peter is the CEO and founder of data privacy and governance software provider ActiveNav.
Security and Privacy
5 social engineering assumptions that are wrong | CSO Online — www.csoonline.com Cybercriminals continue to launch creative social engineering attacks to trick users. Meanwhile, social engineering misconceptions are exacerbating the risks of falling victim.
How mercenary hackers sway litigation battles — www.reuters.com A trove of thousands of emails uncovered by Reuters reveals Indian cyber mercenaries hacking parties involved in lawsuits around the world – showing how hired spies have become the secret weapon of litigants seeking an edge.
Deepfakes Are Interviewing For Tech Jobs - ExtremeTech — www.extremetech.com Bad actors are impersonating other people via deepfakes to weasel their way into remote work positions, according to the FBI. ...
Mental Health
Linked: Employee burnout is a warning sign -- about your organization — www.mikemcbrideonline.com If you are seeing more and more people in your organization, or on your team, talking about stress, burnout, or just leaving, the solution is not a Zoom yoga session, or newsletter tips about how employees can better handle stress. The problem is coming from inside the house, as they say in the movies.
Linked: Three-quarters of employees’ careers impacted by mental health, report finds — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I think a little anxiety and anger are appropriate now. Being distracted from your work should actually be a pretty normal reaction to what is going on in the world. Just replace your own national politics for the UK in that survey and can you really say that something hasn't prevented you from being your best at work during the last couple of years? I'm in the US, I think it's crazy that there are people going about their work as if nothing is happening, but I also know that is the corporate culture for many of us as well. For the hours you are "at" work, that's our time. Spend your own time worrying about the world, grieving for lost loved ones, caring for your family, or your own needs, etc. This is wrong on so many levels. Your people are not hours of labor on a spreadsheet, they are human beings, and human beings should absolutely be affected by what is going on in the world. Expecting them not to be during work hours tells me a lot more about the management team than it does about the workforce. It surely doesn't say anything good about the management team either.
Sharing - 'Sorry for Your Loss … Let's Get Back to Work': On the Nature of Grief — www.childabusesurvivor.net Samantha’s article about grief has a lot in common with some of the things I’ve been saying about abuse, and other trauma, specifically this idea: “Society creates the perception that all that is needed after a loss is for the individual to take a little time to breathe — and then get back to work....
Training
Linked: Upskilling employees? Odds are you’re underinvesting — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Whether you purchase an LMS or make some other kind of training resource available to your employees, the fact of the matter is that it is expensive to ignore this issue. Your people likely have skill gaps that hinder their work. They want to fill in those gaps through education and grow with your organization, and if you don't provide that someone else will.
The 85% Rule for Learning - Scott H Young — www.scotthyoung.com How often should you succeed at a task, to maximize learning? I review research suggesting the answer is close to 85%.