Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 11, 2026
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Linked – Law School Has Failed The Profession
James isn’t pulling any punches in his claim that law schools aren’t teaching basic business skills. “This lack of basic financial literacy has been holding back the management and growth of the legal industry for decades. Many large law firms are only now starting to adopt the financial analytics tools that have long been commonplace…
Linked: How to Keep Work Stress from Taking Over Your Life
I think we can all see a lot of workplaces in this intro, so these resources can be very useful in helping us understand how to not let the stress of work ruin our health: “Work-related stress can get the best of us all. Emails, Slack messages, phones ringing off the hook, your co-worker dropping…
Linked – Most people worry about deepfakes – and overestimate their ability to spot them
Maybe those easy-to-spot ones are lulling us into a sense of overconfidence. What will we do when something is done with more effort and better quality? Heck, enough folks are being fooled by the poor ones because they display something they want to believe. None of us should assume we’d always know.Â
Shared Links (weekly) July 9, 2023
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Child depression rates are skyrocketing – but social media isn’t to blame. Here’s why– Correlation is not causation, the relationship between mental health and social media is much more complicated than some would lead us to believe.
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AIÂ is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
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Sask. farmer fined $82,000 for thumbs up emoji- “A Saskatchewan court has ruled that sending someone a thumbs-up emoji could indicate a contractual agreement.”
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The Value of Continuous Learning: Strategies for Lifelong Skill Development
Linked – 49% of workers fear being open about mental health status at work
There has been a lot of progress, but I fear management has made that progress and ticked the item on the checklist as “done” without really making sure they’ve hit the mark. Yes, they rolled out a mental health benefit or two, but have they done the work to train managers? Have they understood how employees feel about that relationship and whether they trust their immediate manager? That is where an employee needs to feel safe talking about mental health. If that safety doesn’t exist, all the extra benefits in the world will not help.
