Mike McBride

Worth Reading - Layoffs Cast a Long Shadow Layoffs aren't good for business. They are detrimental to employees, even those not directly affected, and I would add that they also don't benefit customers.  The only benefit large corporations seem...

ICYMI - October 1, 2025Worth Reading – Layoffs Cast a Long Shadow www.mikemcbrideonline.com/2025/10/wort... #employment #layoff #layoffs

Worth Reading - Trust Networks as Antidote to AI Slop /

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Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #178 The annual eDiscovery Day is coming on Dec. 4

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Barely above the water at sunset Alabama, Pelican, sunset

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Build Your Lifeboat Before It's Too Late In this issue:

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A Small Way Social Media can be a Mental Health Positive I know opening social media right now can feel like an open invitation to a never-ending scroll of rage. I've been avoiding much of it myself for the last few weeks, busying myself with travel and projects...

ICYMI - October 30, 2025A Small Way Social Media can be a Mental Health Positive www.mikemcbrideonline.com/2025/10/a-sm... #internet #mentalhealth #socialnetworking #travel

Worth Reading - If You’re a Deep Thinker, You Might Not Be a Quick Thinker Making room for both quick and deep thinkers will yield the best ideas and results. Is your workplace a space where deep thinkers can take time and come back to ideas and discussions? If not, there's...

ICYMI - August 30, 2025Worth Reading – If You’re a Deep Thinker, You Might Not Be a Quick Thinker www.mikemcbrideonline.com/2025/08/wort... #culture #management #meetings

Long Legs and Long Beak BatonRougeZoo, bird

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Worth Reading - First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That's Stealing Your Emails Do you know what your agents are doing? 

ICYMI - September 29, 2025Worth Reading – First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That’s Stealing Your Emails www.mikemcbrideonline.com/2025/09/wort... #ai #security

11th Annual eDiscovery Day Set for December 4 Exterro to Lead the Conversation on AI, Risk, and the Future of eDiscovery...

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Taming Modern Data Challenges: The Importance of Information Governance Discover why information governance is essential for managing modern data sources in eDiscovery. Learn how IG frameworks and technologies help legal teams navigate mobile, SaaS, and AI-generated content.

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Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #178 The annual eDiscovery Day is coming on Dec. 4

Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #178

The annual eDiscovery Day is coming on Dec. 4

#eDiscovery #Careers #M365 #MentalHealth #RemoteWork

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A Master Table of Truth Lawyers using AI keep turning up in the news for all the wrong reasons—usually because they filed a brief brimming with cases that don’t exist. The machines didn’t mean to lie. They just did …

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Worth Reading - Productivity and Flexibility Do Not Have to Be Mutually Exclusive Why would we trust the same leaders who never overcame proximity bias when it came to people who spent more time in the office versus those who got work done to figure out how much flexibility employees...

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Water Taxis Chicago

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Worth Reading - Don’t Let AI Transcription Sink Your Ship We should always be thoughtful about what we say in meetings and how we say it. It's just being professional, and now that we can also assume there will be a record of it, we have yet another reason! 

ICYMI - October 28, 2025Worth Reading – Don’t Let AI Transcription Sink Your Ship www.mikemcbrideonline.com/2025/10/wort... #ai #meetings #privacy #risk

The Lesson I Learned the Hard Way: Build Your Network Before You Need It I thought hard work would protect me from layoffs. It didn’t.

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M365 News Roundup for November 2025 It happened again, a new button as I was doing a demo. Changes are coming fast and furious.

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Never Stop Learning: A Survival Guide for IT Pros and Security Engineers in a Relentless Tech Landscape Because in IT, 'Eternal Student' Beats 'Eternal Noob' – and the Tuition is Just Coffee Money

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AI Tech "Discovers" Personalized Ads OpenAI isn't calling the "feedback" advertising yet, because they haven't started selling ads to businesses, but does anyone think that isn't coming next?

ICYMI - September 27, 2025AI Tech “Discovers” Personalized Ads www.mikemcbrideonline.com/2025/09/ai-t... #ai #chatgpt #google #history

Worth Reading - When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed Perhaps before we rush to let an agent book our travel arrangements, we should take a moment to consider what might happen to our payment information if the agent were to allow it to fall into the hands...

ICYMI - August 26, 2025Worth Reading – When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed www.mikemcbrideonline.com/2025/08/wort... #ai #phishing #security #speaking #travel

M365 News Roundup for November 2025 It happened again, a new button as I was doing a demo. Changes are coming fast and furious.

M365 News Roundup for November 2025

It happened again, a new button as I was doing a demo. Changes are coming fast and furious.

#M365 #Microsoft #Copilot #Security #Teams

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A place for S'Mores Fire

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This look like a science class model BatonRouge

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Worth Reading - How to spot fake AI photos The clues are usually there, but you have to stop and look at the details. How many of us stop to do that when we're scrolling our social media feeds? That's why fake images and videos spread online....

ICYMI - August 25, 2025Worth Reading – How to spot fake AI photos www.mikemcbrideonline.com/2025/08/wort... #ai #deepfake #forensics #internet #photo

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Shadow in Flight Alabama, Pelican, sunset

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Worth Reading - The Hidden Job Market: Why 70% of Roles Are Never Posted Online – and How to Access Them Which, of course, brings us back to the original point about these kinds of jobs. You need to know people. Employers need to have employees who know people, as well as know people themselves, and job...

ICYMI - September 22, 2025Worth Reading – The Hidden Job Market: Why 70% of Roles Are Never Posted Online – and How to Access Them www.mikemcbrideonline.com/2025/09/wort... #jobsearch #linkedin #networking