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“We are living in a world in which a handful of high-tech companies, sometimes working hand-in-hand with governments, are not only monitoring much of our activity, but are also invisibly controlling more and more of what we think, feel, do and say. The technology that now surrounds us is not just a harmless toy; it…
Linked – 5 Quick Sites That Let You Check if Links Are Safe
One of my biggest concerns about link-shorteners has always been that the receiver has no way of knowing where the link takes them until the click it. That might be OK with people you know and trust on social media and email, but that’s only a small portion of the things that we are asked…
Linked: Only Your Boss Can Cure Your Burnout
I think the headline really speaks for the entire article. We can get all the self-care tips in the world, do yoga on the regular, eat well, and everything else, but if we work in a place that regularly requires 60 hour work weeks, ridiculous deadlines, and doesn’t really give us some control over work that we enjoy, that’s still going to be a recipe for burnout.Â
If you have any employees that report to you, go read the article and consider what it is that you are doing with your own workplace. Are they headed for burnout? Do you care enough to make changes to avoid that? Or is that “just the way it is” in your industry? If it is, ask yourself why it’s that way? Is there actually a legitimate reason for it? Or are you just so engrained in it that you can’t imagine rethinking the way your industry works?
Linked – Tainted Leaks
Oh this is going to be fun…. “Last year, I wrote about the potential for doxers to alter documents before they leaked them. It was a theoretical threat when I wrote it, but now Citizen Lab has documented this technique in the wild:” I’ve looked at this sort of thing before, and it scares me….
