Honestly, I think we all know where this is coming from, and it’s gross. It’s also harmful to your business. You don’t recruit and retain the most talented employees by limiting your choices. You have to expand the choices to attract a wider range of people. It’s common sense and basic math. When you decide
Mike McBride
Mike McBride has been blogging since 2001, starting with what was, in essence, a blog about technology and being a One-Man IT Department. Over the years, his career has taken some twists and turns, as well as my interests, so now you will find blog posts covering everything from Social Networking, Law firms and Litigation Support, Travel, Training and yes, he's still writing about technology! He's even branched out into Photography and Sports Talk.
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Worth Reading – Top 10 Biglaw Firm To Conduct ‘Massive’ Layoff, Leaving Hundreds Jobless Thanks To AI
By Mike McBride
I can see why publicly proclaiming that you’re being innovative with new technology to reduce your headcount is a better alternative to admitting your firm isn’t doing well or to publicly blaming US policy. It might not be the whole truth, though. Usually, when there are large layoffs, the truth is a questionable idea anyway.…
Shared Links (weekly) Feb 8, 2026
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Is there room for calm in your meetings?
By Mike McBride
Mora’s advice is to slow down, pause after someone finishes speaking, take a breath before coming off mute, and slow your speech.
I think those are great ideas that I plan to spend a little more time on and bring to the meetings I host in order to bring calm to the whole team. But…
Shared Links (weekly) Feb 1, 2026
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Worth Reading – “Pizza Parties Don’t Fix Burnout”: The State of Librarian Mental Health
By Mike McBride
It’s exhausting to go to work every day for people who refuse to stand behind you as a human being and treat you like an expense they would do anything to be rid of.
Sadly, that is the state of the workplace for many people. It’s not just at the library, and it won’t be…
Show Your Work, and You Might Get Lucky
By Mike McBride
The post is written by a developer, and he’s got good advice for anyone looking for that kind of work. I’m not a developer, but I can say with some confidence that this advice applies to everyone. In this job market, who you know is everything.
Scratch that. It’s not who you know, it’s who…
Blogs are Back
By Mike McBride
If you aren’t yet that dedicated to RSS feeds, this may be a super-easy way to get started. It’s free, you don’t even need an account, the data is stored in your browser, or you can create a free account and sync the data across your devices.
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Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 25, 2026
By Mike McBride
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Worth Reading – General Purpose AI Will Never Be Safe
By Mike McBride
I think we can agree that granting someone full access to the open internet without education or tools to protect themselves would be dangerous, no?
OK, but what is a general-purpose LLM but a collection of everything that the model could ingest, without rules about what was safe and what wasn’t?
Yet we expect people…