Shared Links (weekly) July 27, 2025
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Do You Feel Pressured to Work From the Plane?
Years from now, is anyone going to remember that thing you tied yourself into a pretzel to complete while 30,000 feet in the air? It’s unlikely. But your body and brain will be affected by the rest you didn’t get.
The goal of life is not to spend every minute being productive. There’s so much more than that.
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Worth Reading – AI is turbocharging worker productivity but it’s also wreaking havoc on their mental health
It’s the classic conundrum for workers. If you’re the most productive member of your team, what’s your reward?
More work.
If you’re the most productive member of your team using AI, what’s your reward?
More work, while being more isolated, to work with the AI.
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Worth Reading – Your ‘Culture’ is a Lie Until You Fund Mental Health
The culture you describe would be working toward solutions to the epidemic of burnout and anxiety. Especially the stress that results from financial instability, caregiving responsibilities, and discrimination, to name a few. A good workplace culture addresses these issues by providing a living wage, flexibility, and equal opportunities, among other benefits related to quality mental health care.
An app doesn’t show that you care, and if you don’t care, you have no culture.
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Linked – Two ways AI hype is worsening the cybersecurity skills crisis
The pressure to become AI experts and make the organization’s rollout of AI tools secure only adds more mental load to already overloaded cybersecurity professionals.
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Linked – Survey Finds Employee Mental Health Suffering From ‘Political Turmoil’ and ‘Economic Uncertainty’
Pay people enough money so that they can live and stop the mass layoffs every time the stock price dips a little bit. Much of the financial stress people face is because they don’t make enough money to pay for things like childcare and are constantly worried about losing their jobs. If you want to help your employees struggling with stress, anxiety, and burnout, there’s a good place to start.
