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Be Careful with Those AI Note-takers

Mike McBride — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:31:27 +0000

This is dumb on so many levels. Having a meeting assistant in such a personal meeting was probably rude and dangerous from the start. Forgetting it was there while you talked about replacing the former employee was even stupider. Maybe the icing on the cake for me is another question. If she was terminated, why did the email with the transcript still get to her? Why was her email account still accessible?

This might be a really good example of AI use making your systemic failures even more obvious, and faster.

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Worth Reading – Advancing Technology Is the New Existential Anxiety

Mike McBride — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:00:22 +0000

I get it. Every day, there’s someone in Big AI telling us that AI is going to either replace you or kill you. Every other day, the tool you use to do your job changes. On the off days, announcements about new products that will revolutionize everything and make employers need fewer employees mix with...

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When AI Chat History Bites

Mike McBride — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:52:56 +0000

What do your AI chats say about you? Would you want someone else reading them and drawing their own conclusions? Maybe take a look at how long you keep them.

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Shared Links (bi-weekly) Oct. 18, 2026

Mike McBride — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:38:14 +0000

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Worth Reading – The Hidden Dangers of AI Chat History

Mike McBride — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:24:47 +0000

There's the obvious privacy issue with public AI tools, but people often overlook another reality: at work, someone likely has the same access to your AI interactions as they do to your email and Teams messages. As a company using AI, you're also responsible for all that data. You must protect it, keep it private, and, if required, collect it in response to a lawsuit or investigation.

Are you prepared to do that?

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Worth Reading – Reading the Meeting Room

Mike McBride — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:14:28 +0000

The bigger issue, however, is meetings where little thought has gone into how they're run. Especially the regularly scheduled meetings, like weekly project updates. It's easy for those meetings to become such a routine task that we don't think much about them beforehand, and then we just go through the motions, following the agenda without considering where the team is or what they need. We've all been guilty of this. I'm no different.

It's almost as if the meeting is for us as leaders, and not the rest of the team, which I don't think is a good way to run a meeting.

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Worth Reading – AI Can Accelerate a Culture—Good or Bad

Mike McBride — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:58:21 +0000

Frankly, AI will be an expensive way to learn that your underlying processes or data were suspect all along.

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Worth Reading – Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Mike McBride — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:08:36 +0000

I love this year’s theme: Don’t Make It Easy for Them. https://www.staysafeonline.org/cybersecurity-awareness-month I remember growing up and hearing adults I knew in law enforcement talk about someone breaking into your house. The general consensus then was that a house alarm or car alarm wouldn’t stop someone skilled and dead set on getting into your house...

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Shared Links (bi-weekly) Oct. 4, 2026

Mike McBride — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:45:01 +0000

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Worth Reading – You Will Not Retire

Mike McBride — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:51:57 +0000

Alex sees the writing on the wall; the idea that anyone can retire at 65 in the near future is a joke. That future existed when pensions were common; homeownership early in adulthood was achievable, and you could work for the same company doing very similar work for over 40 years.

We don't have any of that now. What we do have is a system that was designed for that, though, and a system that refuses to change with the times.

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