We Have All The Tech Tools to Connect that We Could Ask For, Yet There’s a Loneliness Epidemic

We Have All The Tech Tools to Connect that We Could Ask For, Yet There’s a Loneliness Epidemic

I’m sure by now you’ve seen the headlines all over the place. I’m only going to link one: New Study Shows Most Americans Are Lonely We have, in the last 150 or so years, (Since the invention of the telephone), come up with countless ways to communicate directly, and immediately, with each other. From those…

Linked – Fake news, propaganda spread quickly on social media
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Linked – Fake news, propaganda spread quickly on social media

I would like all of you who participate in social media to read the following quote very carefully: “According to Durfee, social media misinformation usually spreads due to a user’s status online. If users are trusted by a group of people, their posts are more likely to be accepted and shared as truth.” When you…

Linked – Internet issues cause the most stress for SME owners
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Linked – Internet issues cause the most stress for SME owners

This actually doesn’t surprise me. I would imagine for small and mid-sized law firms this would be pretty high as well. “A new survey shows that internet issues are the largest management stressor among SME owners, followed by GDPR and cyber security.” As we have moved more and more data and services to the cloud,…

Fortune Cookie Advice – Don’t Ever Slam a Door; You Might Want to Go Back
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Fortune Cookie Advice – Don’t Ever Slam a Door; You Might Want to Go Back

Yes, that was my fortune earlier this week. In your personal life, I can think of a few doors that should be slammed shut. In your professional life though, maybe not so much. That’s not to say there aren’t companies, bosses, or even coworkers that you definitely do not want to go back to. I’m…

Linked – Seven out of ten people do not want robots drafting their Wills, survey finds
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Linked – Seven out of ten people do not want robots drafting their Wills, survey finds

This seems like a pretty massive disconnect doesn’t it? “However, although the VWV study signalled the public’s lack of trust for the technology, almost all of the London law firms are thought to be planning to use AI in their practices. “ AI is coming, and law firms, their clients, and just about every other industry…