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Linked: The Lonely, Pixelated Hell of Networking During the Pandemic
Most of these sound awful, and the ones that are “not so voluntary” attempts to make sure workers are engaged sound even worse.
Actually, I suspect they are doing a lot more harm to engagement than good.
There are ways to network during this time. They’re different, they’re a little more work, and they take some getting used to. But they don’t need to be ridiculous, and they definitely don’t need to be forced.
In fact, this is a great time to simply send someone a note asking for 15-30 minutes of their time. Most of us are pretty open to doing exactly that with coworkers or peers in our industry. I’d be happy to find some time to have a conversation with you about my industry, or mental health, or blogging. Or even to just have a coffee or beer with virtually. We don’t even need to be on our webcams if you don’t want.
See, isn’t that better than having 50 people on mute while the CEO talks, or getting randomly matched with coworkers?
Ugh, the introvert in me shudders to think about some of these. Please, don’t. Just ask someone to get a coffee like we used to.
Linked: New Research: Jargon Is a Sign of Insecurity, Not Smarts
“The more worried people are about their status, the more buzzwords they use.” Man, the Legal Technology industry must be full of some of the most insecure people in the world, no? Personally, I think it is, and I think it’s mostly because truly understanding this stuff is hard, and understanding anything well enough to…
Linked – If job stress is killing you, it’s time to leave
The quote below reminded me of something I heard mentioned on a podcast interview recently. Unfortunately, I don’t remember which podcast it was, but the gist of it was that if we are seeing so many people leave stable employment to become “life coaches”, maybe we should look at how bad the workplace has become…
Linked: Twitter transgression proves why its flawed 2FA system is such a privacy trap
This is such a bad look for Twitter: “The site said it may have inadvertently used email addresses and phone numbers provided for 2FA and other security purposes to match users to marketing lists provided by advertisers. ” Privacy and security advocates have enough of a hill to climb to get people to implement something…
