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Tech

Does Anyone Believe Meta Will Do This Well?
ByMike McBride August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

This is the same company that has been accused of serving beauty ads to young women after it detected that they had deleted a selfie from their phones, and also of selling that to advertisers as a business model.

The same company that refuses to take down obviously dangerous and false information in the interest of “free speech absolutism” wants us to believe that it will protect people from online harassment now when it’s content created with their glasses specifically to stalk and harass them?

Sorry, Adam, you don’t get that kind of benefit of the doubt.

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Career

How Many Managers Can’t Give Feedback?
ByMike McBride August 11, 2026August 10, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

Far too many managers are promoted, but still doing their old job. They’re really just team leads but expected to act as managers without the resources to do so. When you’re in a situation where you’re drowning like that, talent development is the last thing on your mind, and in the case of more than half of the workers surveyed, it shows.

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Artificial Intelligence

Worth Reading – AI Note-Taking Apps Are Violating User Privacy
ByMike McBride August 10, 2026August 8, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

Honestly, the first time I saw an ad for Granola, I immediately thought, “This seems illegal and is going to get someone in a lot of trouble”:

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Artificial Intelligence

Worth Reading – The AI Productivity Illusion
ByMike McBride July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

The core question in the post above is pretty simple. Generative AI has helped people finish tasks more quickly and probably completed more tasks, at least when their time is not taken up with cleaning up the slop from poorly generated work, but there haven’t been any widespread economic productivity gains.

What if we’re completing more tasks, but they have no value?

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Career

Worth Reading – It’s Not Just the Tech: The Hidden Cognitive Load of the Physical Workplace
ByMike McBride July 28, 2026July 28, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

That’s an extreme example, but this article makes the more obvious one: working in an office comes with its own cognitive load, especially if it’s an open floor plan, because you are forced to navigate noise and other people all day long. I’ve been trying to tell people for years that when I do visit one of our offices as a remote worker, those days are exhausting for me, because it’s the extra cognitive load of getting there, navigating the space and the other people, the noise, etc.

It adds up, and it can contribute to burnout.

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Mental Health

Worth Reading – Corporate America spends billions on mental health services. 97% never use it.
ByMike McBride July 18, 2026July 22, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The combination of the stigma of calling in the first place, along with a program that doesn’t meet the needs, means 97% of people won’t bother with it. We should be looking at alternatives, for sure.

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