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Shared Links (weekly) Oct. 11, 2020
ByMike McBride October 11, 2020October 11, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

World Mental Health Day: Leaders Must Prioritize The Whole Wellbeing Of Employees

eDiscovery Market Trends That Can No Longer Be Ignored

Securing Your WordPress Installation

FBI Warning: Using Hotel Wireless Networks is Risky

How to Recognize if Your Colleague is Struggling

Mental health days. Meeting-free times. Companies are adding new benefits to help workers cope

Looking back at the International Panel at Relativity Fest

Microsoft announces new initiatives to promote cybersecurity awareness

Facebook Introduces Mental Health Resource Hub

How To Blog Effectively Every Time

How to talk about mental health with your boss

The Case for Native, I Swear

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Career

There Seems to be A Disconnect Between Management and Employees, Again.
ByMike McBride October 8, 2020October 14, 2022 Reading Time: 4 minutes

Specifically, as this article points out, companies seem to think they’re doing a bang-up job supporting their employees during all of this forced work-from-home stuff, and pandemic fears, but employees don’t seem to agree: Nearly three-quarters of managers in the survey say they’re helping their staff learn skills to work in a new way. But…

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Links | Mental Health

Linked: How to Stop Depression from Sabotaging Your Career
ByMike McBride October 6, 2020October 5, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

You would think, after everything we’ve been through this year with COVID-19, racial justice issues, a dysfunctional election, and natural disasters, maybe, just maybe this wouldn’t still be the case, but I’m afraid for many workers, this is totally true: “In my opinion, productivity is given undue importance, while burnout is largely ignored in the…

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Links | Tech

Linked: Your Data Is Discriminating…Against You
ByMike McBride October 5, 2020October 14, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I think this is really interesting, because the more information about you there is, the more reasons someone can find to either rule against you, or to do more investigation into you. Which leads to more information about you being available, and round and round we go. “That is in part because algorithms are made…

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SocialNetworking

Why The Lies Matter
ByMike McBride October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Reading Time: 4 minutes

According to this Psychology Today article, they matter because we are completely incapable of ignoring them. Even when we know something isn’t true, it still impacts our thought processes because our brains cannot unlearn information we take in. The example from the article is a good place to start: Now imagine this scenario: You are…

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Links | Tech

Linked: The Cybersecurity War is Here, and Everyone is a Combatant
ByMike McBride September 29, 2020September 29, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I have said before that I think the biggest reason that customers and “regular” people don’t straight up demand businesses get better at security and privacy is that they don’t really understand it. This is closely followed by the fact that “regular people” aren’t necessarily damaged by these data leaks or anything else all that…

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