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Worth Reading – Reading the Meeting Room
ByMike McBride October 12, 2026October 11, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

The bigger issue, however, is meetings where little thought has gone into how they’re run. Especially the regularly scheduled meetings, like weekly project updates. It’s easy for those meetings to become such a routine task that we don’t think much about them beforehand, and then we just go through the motions, following the agenda without considering where the team is or what they need. We’ve all been guilty of this. I’m no different.

It’s almost as if the meeting is for us as leaders, and not the rest of the team, which I don’t think is a good way to run a meeting.

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Artificial Intelligence

Worth Reading – AI Can Accelerate a Culture—Good or Bad
ByMike McBride October 8, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

Frankly, AI will be an expensive way to learn that your underlying processes or data were suspect all along.

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Security

Worth Reading – Cybersecurity Awareness Month
ByMike McBride October 5, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

I love this year’s theme: Don’t Make It Easy for Them. https://www.staysafeonline.org/cybersecurity-awareness-month I remember growing up and hearing adults I knew in law enforcement talk about someone breaking into your house. The general consensus then was that a house alarm or car alarm wouldn’t stop someone skilled and dead set on getting into your house…

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Career

Worth Reading – You Will Not Retire
ByMike McBride September 23, 2026September 22, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Alex sees the writing on the wall; the idea that anyone can retire at 65 in the near future is a joke. That future existed when pensions were common; homeownership early in adulthood was achievable, and you could work for the same company doing very similar work for over 40 years.

We don’t have any of that now. What we do have is a system that was designed for that, though, and a system that refuses to change with the times.

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Artificial Intelligence

Worth Reading – Enterprise AI Has a Data Problem, Not a Model Problem
ByMike McBride September 19, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

If I’m being honest, every time I hear someone say they don’t like Copilot because ChatGPT or Claude is just better, I have to wonder about that. The models available inside Copilot aren’t that different, but there is one big difference. Copilot has access to all your email, OneDrive documents, SharePoint files, etc.

That’s been a selling point for Microsoft, but it might also explain why the results differ. Your data might be making the results worse than when you use a different tool that isn’t connected to your Microsoft environment.

What is your AI using as its source of truth?

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Mental Health | SocialNetworking

Worth Reading – Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point
ByMike McBride September 18, 2026September 24, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The problem wasn’t trying to keep kids safer by limiting the time they spent away from home unsupervised; it was not giving them alternative ways to build the same connections and skills. When I read about social media bans, I have the same question. How are we replacing the connections to friends, family, supportive communities, and educational information? Because if we aren’t, we’ll protect them from one thing and create other issues.

If not social media, then where?

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