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ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

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Linked – How Manafort’s inability to convert a PDF file to Word helped prosecutors

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

This is just dumb: “Manafort emailed Gates a .pdf version of the real 2016 DMI P&L, which showed a loss of more than $600,000,” the indictment claims. “Gates converted that .pdf into a Word document so that it could be edited, which Gates sent back to Manafort. Manafort altered the Word document by adding more…

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Linked – Thank You (Yawn), For Sharing

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Some interesting thoughts on how to thank people for sharing your blog posts or other content without sounding trite. I may have to start coming up with more creative ways to thank the people who share things I write. What’s the best “thank you” you’ve gotten from social media? Thank You (Yawn), For Sharing Follow…

Linked – Technology Competence for the Family Lawyer
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Linked – Technology Competence for the Family Lawyer

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Jim has put together a really great list of things to think about, because there is so much tech in our houses now that someone else having control of it can turn very dangerous, especially in a domestic violence situation: “Often the home technology has been set up by one partner in a relationship with the other…

Linked: Only Your Boss Can Cure Your Burnout
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Linked: Only Your Boss Can Cure Your Burnout

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

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. 

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?

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Linked – Now it’s easy to see if leaked passwords work on other sites

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

“So far, Ars isn’t aware of reports of such malicious tools circulating in the wild, but it wouldn’t be surprising if they exist and are already being used. Readers are once again advised to use a password manager to store a unique, randomly generated password that’s a minimum of 10 characters long and contains a…

Linked: Making workplaces better for people struggling with mental health will make work better for everyone
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Linked: Making workplaces better for people struggling with mental health will make work better for everyone

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

The reality is if you allow people to be flexible and get their work done in the way that makes the most sense for them, individually, they will all benefit from that decision. There won’t be a fairness issue because of some accommodation because everyone is getting the accommodation they need to do their best work.

What’s wrong with that? Isn’t that what management says they want?

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