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Building the Neurodiversity Talent Pipeline for the Future of Work
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Managers fail at communication in hybrid and remote work– Unclear communication and managers who aren’t available to respond to remote employees will kill team engagement.
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Tell Me a Picture– Good storytelling matters at work.
Hacking Crowd Sourced Technology
I have been concerned about the idea of trusting “crowd-sourced” data to influence how decisions are made with technology for awhile now. Mostly, it’s been with social media and “reporting” tools, which seem to me to be very easy to influence. For example, fake news reports, or harassment reports are an all-too-easy way to simply…
Linked – Why children should be taught to build a positive online presence
This is the world we live in, it’s not enough to not be online and, therefore, have no risk of embarrassment. Not being online is kind of suspicious in itself, and people are looking: While digital footprints are considered to be a liability, if managed well they can be an asset. Digital footprints can showcase…
Worth Reading – The AI Didn’t Go Rogue. Guardrails Were Never There.
If you don’t put the guardrails in place, you are inviting someone, or some agent, to go rogue. The only difference is that if this were a contractor or an IT person with higher-than-should-be access, you could fall back on their ethics. AI doesn’t have ethics and doesn’t understand the concept. If it can do it, it will do it.Â
Who’s making sure that what it can do is appropriately limited?Â
Linked – Blame the Echo Chamber on Facebook. But Blame Yourself, Too
In The Big Sort, Bill Bishop shows how, over the last 30 years, Americans have sorted themselves into like-minded neighborhoods. The same appears to be happening on the web. All the empirical research to date suggests that the reason is not the use of personalization algorithms per se. Algorithms can easily expose us to…
