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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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153 Million Drivers Licenses for Sale – You’ll Never Guess Where They Came From

Mike McBride — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:59:33 +0000

This should, but won't, end the discussion about the safety of age verification laws. What privacy advocates warned would happen as we continued to force everyone to verify their identity online has happened, and 153 million people worldwide have had their data breached. That's a nightmare. A nightmare many of us saw coming.

Has any single online age-verification law been pulled back since this news came out? I haven't seen any announcements about that, if it happened.

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Worth Reading – Companies that roll back DEI don’t perform better financially, study says

Mike McBride — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:15:19 +0000

I feel like we knew this, and that the entire thing was just performative, not based on any kind of data: “Large corporations appear to have folded under pressure for no financial gain,” a public policy scholar wrote. https://www.hrdive.com/news/companies-dei-roll-back-dei-performance-uc-berkeley/828590/ Some people have been screaming from the rafters for years that diversity programs meant hiring unqualified...

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Shared Links (bi-weekly) Sept.6, 2026

Mike McBride — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:37:19 +0000

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Worth Reading – Rest Is Part of the Work: Why Recovery Can’t Be Something We Earn

Mike McBride — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:34:37 +0000

The human body and brain work best when rest and recovery are part of the schedule. It really is that simple. When we constantly try to "earn" the right to rest, we do a disservice to ourselves. It is part of us.

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Worth Reading – Unspoken Expectations are the Costliest Thing a Leader Never Says

Mike McBride — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:43:49 +0000

The post above points out that it's not as simple as communicating more; it's also about communicating better and making it clear where the employee is empowered to make the decision for themself and where they are not. That's the tricky part. Many of your folks may not feel empowered because you never made it clear that they were, so they don't make decisions that they should on their own, while others feel empowered beyond what they are and make decisions they shouldn't. That simply means the lines have not been clearly communicated, and that's a problem that won't fix itself.

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Worth Reading – How to Be Successful: The Power of Connection

Mike McBride — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:32:19 +0000

I cannot emphasize this enough: people do not just "know" about the work you do. You have to connect with them and show them.

Also, if you're a manager, you should highlight the work your people do and connect them with people inside and outside the organization. If connection is key to success, don't you want your team to succeed?

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Worth Reading – AI is Forcing Organisations to ask Data Governance questions they have avoided for years

Mike McBride — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:39:51 +0000

That's exactly why IG professionals have been telling us to clean up our data. Too many people didn't, and as mentioned in the link above, every AI meeting ends up being about governance.

We did our future selves a disservice by ignoring these questions for years, and now we have to either pay the piper or increase the risk exponentially by letting AI loose on this data.

What governance conversations are you having now thanks to AI?

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