Shared Links (weekly) April 12, 2026
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Recently, I was contacted by a media company representative. She was looking for someone for a paid blogging opportunity. A client of theirs wanted to hire someone to write blog posts every month about the legal services industry. The posts would appear under their byline however, and I would simply be paid for the work…
Automated Documents Barron Henley and Allan MacKenzie Barron: Quit using copy/paste and search replace to create documents! You copy over errors into all your documents. Most of the people, who consider themselves power users, don’t use word processing software effectively at all. Movement away from per hour billing to flat fee means you need to…
This is not as easy as he makes it sound: And then lastly is learning from all these three elements – the user, the device, the least privilege, and adapting your policies. So it’s a constant learning and adapting, changing the policies. For instance, if Jane never executes certain commands on a Unix machine, let’s…
“When we look closely at the data, a striking pattern emerges. The benefit of having a highly competent boss is easily the largest positive influence on a typical worker’s level of job satisfaction. Even we were surprised by the size of the measured effect. For instance, among American workers, having a technically competent boss is…
I found this opening paragraph pretty interesting in and of itself. With the current uncertainty in our daily lives, many people are more stressed than ever. Conventional wisdom says to eat well, exercise, and relax to reduce stress. While that’s all great advice, studies show that learning may relieve stress better than relaxing.  In recent…
If you don’t have the money for significant pay raises, don’t offer other growth opportunities, and have a toxic workplace that doesn’t offer the opportunity for folks to have something that looks remotely like work-life balance, you should prepare yourself to replace everyone. Can you really afford to do that?