Shared Links (weekly) Feb 15, 2026
For more like this, subscribe to the newsletter and get these links and more in your email.
Follow these topics: Weekly Links
Similar Posts
Just my Opinion but Maybe M365 Permissions are Too Complicated
I have long thought M365 is too complicated for anyone to understand all of it deeply. Then I learned that Entra ID has 116 different roles.: People Administrator is the 116th Entra ID Role Lest you think that is all, let me also share this great piece about the 64 roles available in Microsoft Purview….
Linked: The Rise of the 9 p.m. Work Hour
One of the bigger management issues surrounding the remote work model is how and when to communicate. I’m an advocate of more communication, always. I’m a huge advocate of a lot more communication with a remote team.
But, we also have to think about the best way to work together. There are lots, and lots, of meetings that are designed to create better communication but aren’t necessary. Most of them are recurring meetings that no one ever cancels, even when there’s nothing urgent to discuss. Just because we’ve always had this meeting, and we always will.
That’s not a good reason to meet. At the end of the day, if your check-ins or project status meetings are nothing more than a “here’s where we are this week,” we might consider whether it makes more sense for people to send an email instead. Or even a Teams/Slack chat? It’s the same information, but no one has to plan their day around it.
- Career | Certification | Tech
What Was Your Major and Does It Matter Now?
If you’ve been reading much of the news about the recent Equifax data breach, you may have seen someone asking whether the Chief Information Security Officer is actually qualified for her job, based on her undergrad degree being in music. As others have pointed out, what her undergrad studies were probably didn’t have much to…
Linked: Management with intent
Being remote is different. You have to over-communicate to make sure that people are in the loop. You have to create collaboration opportunities and build camaraderie purposefully, and they can’t be team trust falls. You have to get creative about how you work together and interact.
Most of all, you have to be purposeful about it. You have to create opportunities for people to interact and allow them the freedom to create their own patterns and relationships. You have to learn how to work asynchronously so that you can have more meaningful meetings.
