Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 4, 2024
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More Lobbyists and Politicians Who Don’t Understand the Internet Want to Regulate It
I’ve written before about politicians who don’t understand technology are passing laws about it constantly, and why it might be a bad idea. This week, Mike Masnick at TechDirt did a pretty good job of explaining why the news industry trade group spokesmen who wants the US to pass something similar to what the EU…
Linked: 4 video meeting rules that should follow us back to the office
I agree, I have noticed that people do seem to be more aware of when someone else is trying to talk and how they might have interrupted or stepped over them. We absolutely should make time for just socializing. One of my biggest pet peeves about the argument that remote workers just don’t connect as a team and collaborate is that it is possible if you simply intentionally create the space for it. We should trust our employees enough to multitask during the parts of meetings that aren’t really relevant to them, and by all means, we should consider having fewer meetings.
Linked – This Australian AI Aims to Be a ‘Law Firm Without Lawyers’
This is an obvious use of AI in law, allowing clients the ability to respond to questions and get legal documents like a will without the much higher expense of a lawyer’s time. This, is the part that jumped out at me though: “Much of the work these bots, and AI technology in general, do…
Linked: 3 eDiscovery Lessons From COVID-19 Shutdown
The first line of the first lesson is one I totally agree with: “It’s said that major events don’t so much change our culture as they simply reveal what was already there.” I feel like Jeff should have reminded himself of that first line when writing the rest of it, because yes, it’s true that…
