In a nutshell, and in my own paraphrasing.- “Oops, now that we’ve gone and developed all this technology, it turns out people might use if for nefarious purposes, government, step in and stop us” From the actual article: “Smith pointed to several areas where the government could potentially create standards so that companies themselves wouldn’t…
This was the quote that had me nodding my head. “Additionally, FedEx could not use its own business decision “to store huge amounts of information … as a shield” against reasonable discovery requests.” So if searching and producing that amount of email is as impossible as you’re claiming, why did you keep it? What was…
Yet again we see otherwise smart people doing something silly when it comes to computer security. There’s a lot of detail in the article below, but this quote is definitely something everyone should keep in mind: “There is a massive, massive gulf of understanding between otherwise competent professionals and the most basic tenets of computer…
Wait, what? Do you mean to tell me that television shows don’t portray real life? “The reason I consider discovery “the trenches” of litigation is because outside of attorneys and businesses that regularly are involved in litigation, many people do not think, or necessarily even know, what discovery is or how important it can be….
The quote below reminded me of something I heard mentioned on a podcast interview recently. Unfortunately, I don’t remember which podcast it was, but the gist of it was that if we are seeing so many people leave stable employment to become “life coaches”, maybe we should look at how bad the workplace has become…
Yes, it is easy to blame the high performer for not learning to say no, but that’s not reality: It’s easy to blame burnout on the high performers themselves. After all, the stereotype is that these overachievers say yes to more work even when they’re already at capacity. They routinely put work first, canceling personal…