Given the recent post about how important social skills are when your work can be automated, maybe you want to take a look at ways to improve your communication skills? Especially those of you who like having jobs that let you sit behind the scenes and not deal with people.
Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills
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Most people do the right thing with passwords for financial accounts, but all the websites that make them create an account just to read an article? Who really cares if that account gets hacked? Why not just use the same password for all of them? What’s the hacker going to do, read USA Today as them? Who cares?
That is all just normal, human, behavior. The thing that should scare the hell out of security professionals is how many people view their work access the same way. They don’t care. It’s not their data, it’s just the place where they happen to work, for now. This shows in the low number of people creating a strong password for their work accounts. (It also shows how making them change it every few months really just backfires.)
This is in New York City, so I think we know this is probably even worse in other cities around the US, right? “Unsurprisingly, New Yorkers with lower incomes are more likely to lack high-speed internet access: a 2019 study by comptroller Scott Stringer’s office found that 44% of New Yorkers in poverty have no…
I agree with Sharon on this: “Backdoors don’t work. Government raises sensitive issues around human trafficking and child pornography to inflame the public. What it really wants is to snoop at will on everyone and to deprive Americans of our right to privacy. My opinion, but there it is.” The thing is, while the media…
Because if my value to my team is only a factor of productivity versus cost, and not as a human being, why should I put my own mental wellbeing at risk for you?
That makes no sense, and we are seeing more and more people recognize this fact. Either figure out how to support the human beings who work for you, or stop hiring them.
At least that way you aren’t actively harming anyone with your job.
“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…