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Shared Links (weekly) May 14, 2023
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A New Low For Hackers – Threatening to Disclose Patient Medical, Mental Health Records as Ransom for Payment– Makes sense. If the organization won’t pay the ransom maybe the patients have more incentive to do so. I expect this to start targeting gender-affirming and women’s health in the US soon, right?
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The decline of time-based law firms– “Lawyers’ billed hours constitute the inventory of law firms and the foundation of their profits. Legally trained AI will decimate those hours. What happens then?”
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Lonely at the Top: How to Help New People Managers Step Into Leadership
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Companies Are Hoarding Personal Data About You. Here’s How to Get Them to Delete It.
Quick Thought – The I Have Nothing To Hide Brigade
It never actually fails, every time there’s an article or mention of new surveillance tools being used by law enforcement or some other security group, complaints about the privacy violation are met with the “I have nothing to hide” opposition. The inference here, of course, is that anyone desiring privacy has something to hide, and…
Linked – The Myth of the Brilliant, Charismatic Leader
As I’ve heard many people say, the problem is not that having managers is bad; it’s that there are so many bad managers out there. We don’t treat managing and leadership with the attention and importance it deserves, mainly because we don’t realize how much it matters. Good management is boring. (A point made in more detail in the link below) I say that because good management has no drama and no chaos. It’s pretty simple communication about expectations and follow-through. Unfortunately, those managers don’t get highlighted in magazine features because they aren’t interesting. But that’s the point. Good management isn’t there to be entertaining in a reality-TV kind of way; it is there so that the team can get the job done.
