Shared Links (weekly) August 24, 2025
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5 Ways Multitasking Is Bad for Your Mental Health (and 4 Things to Do Instead)– Whether at work or at home, we have all become multitaskers. Realistically, our focus bounces back and forth between multiple things we aren’t doing well.
Psychological Safety – Part 2: How to create and promote it in the workplace
It’s Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes –“Real recordings will be called fake and fake recordings will be leaked as purportedly real. I don’t think the general population is prepared for this, and I worry that news media organizations aren’t either.”
The Uncanny Valley– If tech wants to change its image, it has to recognize the amount of special treatment it’s received both in society and the media.
The article below does a really deep dive into what is available, and where we are lacking, when it comes to mental health support for employees. I think this really sums it up though: “Stigma, access and funding were the biggest hurdles to expanding mental health care, Swayze said. While studies show millennials were more…
How To Keep Your Job While Dealing With Depression Court Infers Intentional, Bad Faith Spoliation From Use of Ephemeral Messaging E-Discovering the Use of Ephemeral Messaging Employers who spend more on their workers’ mental health make more money, Deloitte study finds Jonathan Bond: It’s time to stop working excessive hours and simply switch off Older…
I’ve seen this mentioned before, and it really does make sense. Stay put, and you’ll get whatever the company budgeted for a raise. Leave, and potentially another company has a whole different level of budget for the position. “Americans switching jobs are getting bigger raises than employees staying put, with companies in technology and construction…
The real question is not whether they add it but how. The Internet of Things created many insecure devices because people slapped an internet connection on things that weren’t needed without considering making them safe or usable. Networks got hacked through fish tanks, and people were terrorized by someone taking control of their smart homes. Forcing internet connections on everything turned out not to be so great.Â
Will forcing AI into everything have a similar result?