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I’ve written plenty of times about the importance of backups, multiple backups even. If you know you need to backup, but aren’t sure where to begin, you could do worse that take a look at the options here and start backing up your important data. Seriously, now, before a hard drive crash, malware infection, or…
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Linked: When Workplace Mindfulness Training Is Worse Than Nothing
We’ve seen the memes. The ones about the law firm offering a lunch hour yoga class to overworked, stressed, associates who haven’t had time to even take a lunch break in months. Or the “reward” for months of 70-80 hour work weeks is free pizza. It just makes people angry because it’s a token that does nothing to actually recognize the work involved, or correct the problems that created this mess to start with.
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By the time this posts, I should be getting ready to take my last trip as a trainer for Nuix. I’ve shared this news in bits and pieces to some of the people in my life, but now it’s time to go “blog and social media public”, while also explaining a little bit about why….
