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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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Worth Reading – Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Mike McBride — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:08:36 +0000

I love this year’s theme: Don’t Make It Easy for Them. https://www.staysafeonline.org/cybersecurity-awareness-month I remember growing up and hearing adults I knew in law enforcement talk about someone breaking into your house. The general consensus then was that a house alarm or car alarm wouldn’t stop someone skilled and dead set on getting into your house...

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Shared Links (bi-weekly) Oct. 4, 2026

Mike McBride — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:45:01 +0000

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Worth Reading – You Will Not Retire

Mike McBride — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:51:57 +0000

Alex sees the writing on the wall; the idea that anyone can retire at 65 in the near future is a joke. That future existed when pensions were common; homeownership early in adulthood was achievable, and you could work for the same company doing very similar work for over 40 years.

We don't have any of that now. What we do have is a system that was designed for that, though, and a system that refuses to change with the times.

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Shared Links (bi-weekly) Sept.20, 2026

Mike McBride — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:46:56 +0000

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Worth Reading – Enterprise AI Has a Data Problem, Not a Model Problem

Mike McBride — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:42:29 +0000

If I'm being honest, every time I hear someone say they don't like Copilot because ChatGPT or Claude is just better, I have to wonder about that. The models available inside Copilot aren't that different, but there is one big difference. Copilot has access to all your email, OneDrive documents, SharePoint files, etc.

That's been a selling point for Microsoft, but it might also explain why the results differ. Your data might be making the results worse than when you use a different tool that isn't connected to your Microsoft environment.

What is your AI using as its source of truth?

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Worth Reading – Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point

Mike McBride — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:46:28 +0000

The problem wasn't trying to keep kids safer by limiting the time they spent away from home unsupervised; it was not giving them alternative ways to build the same connections and skills. When I read about social media bans, I have the same question. How are we replacing the connections to friends, family, supportive communities, and educational information? Because if we aren't, we'll protect them from one thing and create other issues.

If not social media, then where?

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Worth Reading – AI ROI For Law Firms: There’s Not Any

Mike McBride — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:22:46 +0000

Stephen is also right to point out that the industry really hasn't figured out how to make this work. Clients increasingly want firms to use AI to reduce billable hours; lawyers don't want to use technology that makes it harder to meet their billable-hour requirements.

This sounds like an impasse. One that will require some innovative thinking and partnership between firms and clients.

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Worth Reading – ‘Just Record Every Meeting’ Is The New Norm. It’s Also A CIO Headache

Mike McBride — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:48:44 +0000

If your data gets breached, how many people will you have to notify? Not just the transcript of what they said, but the recording of them- the audio of their voice, etc. has been breached as well. We don't often talk about the risk that creates, but it does. Deepfake audio and video tools don't require much existing video or audio of someone to generate convincing fakes. How much liability do you have for content you lost in a breach if it's used that way?

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