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Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point
Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point
Instead of treating platforms as monoliths, adults and policymakers should listen to the young people who know them best.
·thereader.mitpress.mit.edu·
Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point
Reading the Meeting Room
Reading the Meeting Room
Before deciding how to lead in a meeting, good leaders diagnose what the meeting situation calls for.
·admiredleadership.substack.com·
Reading the Meeting Room
You Will Not Retire
You Will Not Retire
The lie we’ve been sold for the last 100 years and what replaces it.
·thestillwandering.substack.com·
You Will Not Retire
AI ROI For Law Firms: There’s Not Any
AI ROI For Law Firms: There’s Not Any
Clients need some ownership in how their firms use the technology. Firms and clients need to design workflows together.
·abovethelaw.com·
AI ROI For Law Firms: There’s Not Any
How to Be Successful: The Power of Connection
How to Be Successful: The Power of Connection
Success isn’t about who works the longest hours or who has the fanciest title. It’s about who you know, and more importantly, who knows you. That’s why building close, trusted relationships is the …
·iampractigal.com·
How to Be Successful: The Power of Connection
AI Note-Taking Apps Are Violating User Privacy
AI Note-Taking Apps Are Violating User Privacy
After Otter.ai, Granola is the next AI note-taking app to face a class-action lawsuit for violating state privacy and consent laws. Here’s what you should know.
·lifehacker.com·
AI Note-Taking Apps Are Violating User Privacy
The AI Productivity Illusion
The AI Productivity Illusion
Productivity Is About (Much) More than Finishing Tasks Quickly
·hardresetmedia.com·
The AI Productivity Illusion
AI and Liability
AI and Liability
Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,” and that they generally know “that information generated with AI should not be blindly trusted,” the court held that the AI’s summaries are reflections of the company and “above all an expression of Google’s business activities.” This is the latest skirmish in a decades-old battle over internet publishing. Historically, there were two different types of information distributors: carriers and publishers. A phone company is a carrier. It’ll transmit whatever you say, even discussions about committing a crime. Words are words, and the phone company does not know—nor is it liable for—the words you choose to speak. A newspaper, on the other hand, is a publisher. It decides the words it publishes, and what quotes to include in its articles. If those words or quotes are defamatory or otherwise illegal, it’s liable...
·schneier.com·
AI and Liability
Why Do Team Members Stay?
Why Do Team Members Stay?
People remain committed and stay in an organization for a host of reasons, but “employee engagement” is no longer a reliable predictor of which ones will.
·admiredleadership.substack.com·
Why Do Team Members Stay?
The trap of being promoted from within
The trap of being promoted from within
Getting promoted onto a team you already know feels like a head start, but it's also the easiest way to act on a picture you've only seen half of
·modernleader.is·
The trap of being promoted from within
The AI Didn't Go Rogue. Guardrails Were Never There.
The AI Didn't Go Rogue. Guardrails Were Never There.

The PocketOS incident is not evidence that AI agents are too dangerous to deploy or that they will eventually destroy the world. Deploying agentic AI without proper governance or controls is dangerous, in the same way that giving any automated system unrestricted access to production infrastructure without safeguards is dangerous. The agent did exactly what an unsupervised, overprivileged technology or developer contractor might do: it moved fast, made a judgment call it was not qualified to make, and caused irreversible harm before anyone could intervene.

The PocketOS incident is not evidence that AI agents are too dangerous to deploy or that they will eventually destroy the world. Deploying agentic AI without proper governance or controls is dangerous, in the same way that giving any automated system unrestricted access to production infrastructure without safeguards is dangerous. The agent did exactly what an unsupervised, overprivileged technology or developer contractor might do: it moved fast, made a judgment call it was not qualified to make, and caused irreversible harm before anyone could intervene.
·globalprivacywatch.com·
The AI Didn't Go Rogue. Guardrails Were Never There.