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    Mental Health

    Have We Considered that it’s not Remote Work that Causes Mental Health Issues, but a Culture That Makes it Harder?

    ByMike McBride July 2, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    We could create a workplace where people could work from the coffee shop and interact with other humans in person. Where they didn’t spend so much time working that they could use that saved commute time to attend community events. We just don’t. Instead, we expect remote workers to be available all the time; we tie them up in meetings for 5-6 hours a day because that’s how we “keep an eye” on them, and still expect them to hit all their deliverables.

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    Worth Reading – AI and Liability

    ByMike McBride June 30, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

    In the end, if we shouldn’t trust AI answers, why use AI for search? Using this as your legal argument gives the game away: Google is quickly killing its own product and selling us AI.  But it doesn’t want to be held responsible for the damage it does when the AI gets it wrong. 

    Sorry, whether a court agrees or not, I don’t trust you. 

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    Worth Reading – Hiding who you are can have real effects on your mental health

    ByMike McBride June 25, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

    When businesses tell people to keep their identity out of the workplace, they are causing mental health harm. Period. 

    The effort to hide, the message that they should be ashamed of who they are because coworkers are uncomfortable, isn’t just about being kind; it’s a real workplace mental health issue. The question isn’t about whether it causes harm; it’s about whether you, as an employer, care that you are causing harm. 

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    A PR Hoax Created the Year’s Hottest Rock Band. Imagine What It Can Do in Politics

    ByMike McBride June 18, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

    Maybe the best advice is at the end of the article – assume you are being manipulated. 

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    Career

    Why Do Team Members Stay?

    ByMike McBride June 15, 2026June 21, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

    This relationship might be the biggest indicator of whether your best people stay, yet you give the person in charge of it almost no training on how to manage it effectively.

    Please, make it make sense. 

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    Worth Reading – The trap of being promoted from within

    ByMike McBride June 10, 2026June 9, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    When you get the title, people will bring you things and hand off responsibility to things that you didn’t know existed. Even though you were sitting right there, in the team that you now lead, you don’t know how many things the previous person in that chair never bothered to tell you about, or the relationships across other teams that made their life easier that you need to build. Many of those things didn’t just happen; effort went into knowing what to do and who to talk to.

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