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Linked: The Third Web
ByMike McBride December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Here’s the thing. I’ve been around the internet, and the Web, a long time. Long enough to remember when HTML was going to “democratize” publishing and when blogging was going to “democratize journalism” and when social media was going to be the thing that finally “democratized” the Web and gave everyone a voice.

None of that proved to be true. Each and every iteration of Internet technology eventually wound up with a couple of big winners, and some sort of monopoly.

What is it about Web3 that makes people think this will end any differently?

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Linked: Most Managers Don’t Listen Well
ByMike McBride December 27, 2021December 26, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

If you aren’t even trying to listen during difficult conversations how will employees ever truly feel valued?

This does explain some of the disconnects around managers wanting to return to the office when employees don’t, or managers feeling like they’ve made the effort to support employee mental health when employees don’t agree. In order to understand that what you’re doing isn’t working, you have to actually ask people.

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Linked: Large-scale phishing study shows who bites the bait more often
ByMike McBride December 23, 2021December 23, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

They had some interesting findings on gender (doesn’t matter) and age (young and older employees seemed more likely), but this is one that I think impacts a lot of what we do when it comes to protecting against phishing:

“An interesting finding in the ETH study is that employees who are continuously exposed to phishing eventually fall for it, as 32.1% of the study participants clicked on at least one dangerous link or attachment.”

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Linked: Work addiction is real – here’s how to kick the habit
ByMike McBride December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I think this article, while helpful, also hints at a larger societal problem that many of us have been thinking about and that is what role our work plays in our overall lives and our sense of work. Working all the time isn’t just something we sometimes do. It’s part and parcel of being “important” in our society. Let’s face it, when someone tells us they disconnect in the evenings and weekends, our first thought is not “Oh how healthy”, it is much more to be “Oh you must not be very important then”.

Until that perception changes, I don’t know that we’ll make much progress, but it does need to change. Our work plays far too much of a role in our self-worth and therefore is it is far too easy to take advantage of employees.

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Linked: Quinn Emanuel Says Lawyers Can Work From Home Indefinitely
ByMike McBride December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

What I am also interested in though, is whether any other staff positions were given the same consideration. If the lawyer can work from anywhere, and the impetus is to attract the best lawyers that they can, there’s no reason the same thing can’t be said about many of the other (granted not all), of the staff positions, right? If the lawyers aren’t coming to the office, why do paralegals, assistants, IT, Accounting, etc. need to?

Does Quinn Emanuel value those folks, and want the top talent at those positions too?

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Linked: The Metaverse Via Oculus Is Awkward if You’re a Woman. And Beware of Griefers
ByMike McBride December 17, 2021December 16, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Why it’s almost as if trolls will be trolls, creeps will be creeps, and people will continue to be everything they are on social media or yes, even in person. Because while those who seem to think that the virtual reality and presence of a real voice will somehow dim the hate and harassment that comes from a network where you can be anonymous, we can see plenty of real-life examples where being identifiable didn’t stop anyone from acting this way. I mean, half the folks who took part in Jan. 6 bragged about it on social media for days. Do you really think a little VR is going to make them suddenly self-conscious?

It’s a humanity issue, not a tech issue. No “new” tech that allows people to interact in real-time is going to be without it.

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Linked: The Third Web

Linked: Most Managers Don’t Listen Well

Linked: Large-scale phishing study shows who bites the bait more often

Linked: Work addiction is real – here’s how to kick the habit

Linked: Quinn Emanuel Says Lawyers Can Work From Home Indefinitely

Linked: The Metaverse Via Oculus Is Awkward if You’re a Woman. And Beware of Griefers

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