Month: February 2021

  • Don’t be Fooled, There’s a Good Chance AI Will not Just Augment Your Work

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

    Look, it’s going to take some time, but eventually, it’s coming. We’ve only begun to have conversations around things like Universal Basic Income, or free healthcare, and restructuring the economy. Many, if not most, people are against these things, because they don’t fit with the current world, and frankly, if I thought the world was going to stay the same, I might agree that some of these ideas are probably taking things to far. But, what are we going to do when we simply don’t need as many workers? What does society looks like when AI is doing a lot of the economic work, and 1/3 maybe even 1/2 of the population of any country isn’t needed for work any more?

  • Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 21, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    UniCourt Influencer Q&A with Amanda Brown of Lagniappe Law Lab

    More bosses are using software to monitor remote workers. Not everyone is happy about it

    Corporate E-Discovery Insourcing Runs Straight Into Talent, and Culture, Walls

    Filter Out Annoying Facebook Posts With These Tools

    – Learn some tools to take control over your own newsfeed.

    3 Insights Following the Water Facility Attack

    A Case Against the Peeping Tom Theory of Privacy

    Legal Tech Innovation: The Future is Bright

    Redundancy: Surviving the mental health impact of losing your job

    Redaction – good news from Relativity but less good for some others

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    Linked: LastPass to Limit Usage of Free Version

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Full disclosure. I am a paid customer of LastPass. I have been for a number of years now. Why? Because this is one piece of technology that is worth paying for. There may be some other options out there that give you what you want for free, and there are, obviously, other paid solutions out there as well.

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    Linked: Is Your Midsize Company Designed for a Post-Pandemic Future?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    The reason that I say this is because not a day goes by that I don’t hear someone talking about “getting back” to onsite visits with clients, and doing training, or even CLEs in person again, without taking a moment to consider whether that is even feasible for the client.

    For example, on the training side, yes many folks miss the in-person workshops or training classes that a software or legal tech company would provide, but how many of us in that space have considered how difficult/expensive it might be for the client to gather their people into one location for that time?

  • Would you Pay for Tweetdeck or Advanced Twitter Features?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    If they really want to charge for Tweetdeck, it needs to be treated like a commercial product. Since they brought it in years ago, Twitter has basically just left it sitting on the shelf. There hasn’t been a lot of development, there’s no longer an iOS app, and some native Twitter features, like deleting a tweet, aren’t integrated with Tweetdeck. So, if you’re looking to make some money by charging for Tweetdeck, I get it, but I’m gonna need a little more effort from you Twitter.

  • Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 14, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    How Changes to E-discovery Can Help You in Practice

    Building a culture of learning at work

    Why Laura Prael’s business LEP Digital will always run four days a week

    – Interesting thoughts on the benefits of working fewer hours.

    Court Enforces Strict Sanctions for Failing to Be Competent in ESI Obligations

    Working Moms Are Struggling. Here’s What Would Help.

    It’s Safer Internet Day—Here Are 4 Services to Keep You Safer Online

    How Section 230 Makes My Life Better (A Celebration of Its 25 Year Anniversary)

    Four ways to boost mental health conversations at work

    6 Tips for Professionals with High-Functioning Anxiety

    10 Top Technology Tools for the Small Firm Lawyer

    Employees should design their own work time, P&G HR Director says