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Mike McBride Online, published by Mike McBride, covers topics intersecting law, technology, and workplace issues. The blog discusses mental health challenges within the legal profession, the impact of artificial intelligence on society and politics, and productivity concerns in professional environments. It also addresses career development themes such as networking and work-life balance. The content often reflects on the effects of continuous change and transformation in the workplace, emphasizing practical insights relevant to legal professionals and others navigating evolving work dynamics.
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Worth Reading – AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable – and it’s a problem for all of us
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Shared Links (bi-weekly) May 31, 2026
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Create Certainty Where You Can
Like it or not, your team is dealing with a ridiculous amount of uncertainty in and out of the office. Most of it is beyond our control. When we have the opportunity to create less of it, we should do…
Worth Reading – RIM Is Moving Upstream
Instead of starting your work in a blank Word document or spreadsheet, start in Copilot chat, then move it to a Copilot page, which is a Loop file. From there, you drop part of the page, a component, into chat…
Worth Reading – More than half of all Polymarket “long shot” bets on military action pay off
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Worth Reading – Most workers told Monster their job harms their mental health
If you look at the contributors to the mental health damage, though, you see things that are avoidable if organizations wanted to avoid them. Fix poor management, address understaffing, pay people what they’re worth, and don’t lay off workers just…
Worth Reading – The AI Didn’t Go Rogue. Guardrails Were Never There.
If you don’t put the guardrails in place, you are inviting someone, or some agent, to go rogue. The only difference is that if this were a contractor or an IT person with higher-than-should-be access, you could fall back on…
Will AI pricing become a charge-back cost to clients?
Maybe we can solve both of those issues this way? We’ll bill you fewer attorney hours by leveraging AI, but you need to foot the bill for its use? Right now, with a set price per seat, the cost of…