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Artificial Intelligence

Worth Reading – AI is Forcing Organisations to ask Data Governance questions they have avoided for years
ByMike McBride August 25, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

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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Mental Health

Worth Reading – Do employees feel comfortable talking to HR about mental health?
ByMike McBride August 20, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

There’s that word, trust, again. Your employees aren’t going to talk to you about their mental health; they are not going to use your employee assistance program, and they’re not going to ask for the things that might help them be successful at work because they don’t trust you.

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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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