Shared Links (weekly) March 22, 2026
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The last post was about some people, this one is about some days. Some days nothing works. Some days the internal Microsoft Mail Postoffice has random and sporadic problems. Some people can send messages fine, some people’s messages don’t get delivered until the user initiates a Send/Receive manually, despite the setting to check every “x”…
Who is productive, and who isn’t? Here’s how to tell.– an interesting conversation about employee archetypes.
Middle Managers Suffer Most From Change-Â – “Organizations that aren’t investing in helping their people through change are failing,”
Networking for Better Opportunities: Land a Job By Socializing
Is iPhone AirDrop Feature ‘NameDrop’ Dangerous, as Facebook Posts Claim?– “To be clear, no contact information is automatically shared when two devices are brought together without a user taking action.”
AI doesn’t cause harm by itself. We should worry about the people who control it
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This is a good reminder of how we can all help anyone dealing with layoffs, job stress, anxiety, etc. After I was laid off in 2023, one of the best things I had going for me was my network. There were people who connected me with people, offered to chat, texted me to check in,…
This might seem like a new problem, but it’s an old problem that shows up when trying to do something new.Â
There is a lack of a strategy for data security and data rot. Too many organizations have punted when deciding what data to keep versus delete and haven’t made the hard decisions about implementing data security internally. Now, they want to use AI, but the AI is accessing all that outdated data and exposing the places where security wasn’t correctly implemented. So, it becomes an IT problem to fix.Â
Juliet has written an entire book on the subject, so you should at least read the full article above. As mentioned in the paragraph I quoted above, though, what you’ll find are the things that would allow the American workplace to allow for translating the increased productivity in to fewer hours worked; universal healthcare, overtime pay, loss of unions, and income ineqaulity, are the same things that powerful corporate interests will convince politicians, and voters, are bad for society.Â