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Worth Reading – How to avoid the wear and tear of working hard

Mike McBride — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:12:31 +0000

This is the reality few people in management seem to understand. There is absolutely a point of diminishing returns when it comes to hours worked. And that point is not where you think it is most of the time. It's not at 16-hour days; it's probably less than eight hours. You probably get the highest-quality output from your team for a few hours each day, and even that depends on how many meetings and interruptions their brains have to deal with during the day.

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Shared Links (bi-weekly) Nov 1, 2026

Mike McBride — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:36:38 +0000

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Worth Reading – Microsoft gives voluntary buyout offer to about 60,000 employees

Mike McBride — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:57:57 +0000

It's not a layoff, but it's the next best thing: telling over 25% of your workforce their jobs are so unimportant you'll pay them to leave.

The tech job market is toast. There's no other way to put it.

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Be Careful with Those AI Note-takers

Mike McBride — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:31:27 +0000

This is dumb on so many levels. Having a meeting assistant in such a personal meeting was probably rude and dangerous from the start. Forgetting it was there while you talked about replacing the former employee was even stupider. Maybe the icing on the cake for me is another question. If she was terminated, why did the email with the transcript still get to her? Why was her email account still accessible?

This might be a really good example of AI use making your systemic failures even more obvious, and faster.

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Worth Reading – Advancing Technology Is the New Existential Anxiety

Mike McBride — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:00:22 +0000

I get it. Every day, there’s someone in Big AI telling us that AI is going to either replace you or kill you. Every other day, the tool you use to do your job changes. On the off days, announcements about new products that will revolutionize everything and make employers need fewer employees mix with...

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When AI Chat History Bites

Mike McBride — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:52:56 +0000

What do your AI chats say about you? Would you want someone else reading them and drawing their own conclusions? Maybe take a look at how long you keep them.

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Shared Links (bi-weekly) Oct. 18, 2026

Mike McBride — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:38:14 +0000

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Worth Reading – The Hidden Dangers of AI Chat History

Mike McBride — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:24:47 +0000

There's the obvious privacy issue with public AI tools, but people often overlook another reality: at work, someone likely has the same access to your AI interactions as they do to your email and Teams messages. As a company using AI, you're also responsible for all that data. You must protect it, keep it private, and, if required, collect it in response to a lawsuit or investigation.

Are you prepared to do that?

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Worth Reading – Reading the Meeting Room

Mike McBride — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:14:28 +0000

The bigger issue, however, is meetings where little thought has gone into how they're run. Especially the regularly scheduled meetings, like weekly project updates. It's easy for those meetings to become such a routine task that we don't think much about them beforehand, and then we just go through the motions, following the agenda without considering where the team is or what they need. We've all been guilty of this. I'm no different.

It's almost as if the meeting is for us as leaders, and not the rest of the team, which I don't think is a good way to run a meeting.

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Worth Reading – AI Can Accelerate a Culture—Good or Bad

Mike McBride — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:58:21 +0000

Frankly, AI will be an expensive way to learn that your underlying processes or data were suspect all along.

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