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Linked – ‘Give Us Legal AI Or We’re Leaving’ – Survey
ByMike McBride February 22, 2025February 22, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The hype around AI has reached levels we’ve never seen before. Even skeptics of how well AI works must acknowledge that most professionals are aware of AI tools and curious enough to try them out. Do those efforts match the hype? Likely not, but the fact that AI is everywhere they look right now, except at work, tells them a lot about the firm they are working in. It’s not what they want to see from their firm.

What would be interesting to me is a follow-up survey of how many partners would leave if the firm did embrace AI and push them to use it in their practice.

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Microsoft

Just my Opinion but Maybe M365 Permissions are Too Complicated
ByMike McBride February 17, 2025February 16, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

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….

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Career

Linked – Charting the Value of Remote Work: Would You Take a Pay Cut?
ByMike McBride February 14, 2025February 14, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

We understand the value, and we’ve likely done the math. However, that’s not the end of the story. Speaking for myself, there are two things that we also need to talk about.

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Artificial Intelligence

Linked – Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
ByMike McBride February 11, 2025February 10, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’m unsurprised by this and unsure why anyone would be surprised: Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use. I’ve pointed out before that the promise of AI taking over tasks and freeing employees up to do more strategic decision-making falls apart when considering how many…

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Mental Health

Linked – What You Need to Know About the Misinformation Effect
ByMike McBride February 5, 2025February 4, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Because if you read enough misinformation, you can’t help but be influenced by it. The people who put out all this false information know it, too.

The only way to combat it is to ignore it. We must leave spaces where it occurs, cut ourselves off from people and sites promoting it, and never share anything we haven’t vetted with trustworthy fact-checkers. We need zero tolerance for ourselves when it comes to false information online.

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SocialNetworking | Training

Quick Thought – Willful Ignorance
ByMike McBride February 3, 2025February 2, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I learned nothing I could say or do would change their minds in those situations. I also had an obligation to the customer and the other students to move on instead of trying to argue with the person who didn’t want to learn. Once their minds are closed off to new information, I’m wasting precious time I could use to educate people who want to be educated.

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