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Linked: How Different Personality Types Cope with an Always-On Culture
The issue in mid-2021 is that there are a lot of people who have found ways to balance that suits them, and they are all a little different. So, after a year of figuring out the best way to handle our work and personal lives, individually, companies are forcing everyone back into the same template. The flexibility we had to find what works best for us as an individual, is gone. We all have to adjust back to whatever works for the CEO making this decision, as opposed to what works for us as individuals.
It’s hard to imagine that there are so many managers and executives who don’t understand this. Or maybe they just don’t care?
Linked – Summer vacations can cause havoc for IT departments
Every company has workaholics who can’t leave their duties behind when heading out on vacation. They’re kind of worker who, if the hotel doesn’t have Wi-Fi, will rush to the closest coffee shop or eatery to stay connected, check email and jump onto a video conference call. Those are the kinds of insecure wireless networks that…
Linked: A robot wrote this entire article. Does that scare you, human?
I’ve asked you before if you would be able to tell if I walked away from this blog years ago and simply left AI to write it. Maybe we aren’t there yet, but consider the article below. This is how it came to be: “This article was written by GPT-3, OpenAI’s language generator. GPT-3 is…
Linked – Social media genie won’t go back in the bottle, so we must teach youngsters to use it wisely
Let’s face it. The internet isn’t going away. It’s here to stay, for better and worse. This article does a fair job of describing both the benefits to kids and teens of using social media and the internet in general, as well as the risks. They both exist, let’s not kid ourselves. Don’t hide your…
Reading – Deduplication: Why Computers See Differences in Files that Look Alike to You
Craig Ball does a great job describing how hash values are created, and used to deduplicate identical copies of documents, and also how that technology would fail to identify the same content existing in different types of files. That’s why having a near-duplicate tool is also a good thing. It can help you find the…
