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Will AI Fix Work?
Mike Tobias: May 24, 2023 2:52:45 PM
TLDR: Nope. Sorry, problems with work are bigger than even AI's capabilities.
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That's not how you run a company!
Mike Tobias: May 23, 2023 4:51:04 PM
“The human mind is a lot like the human egg, and the human egg has a shut-off device. When one sperm gets in, it shuts down so the next one can’t get in.”
- Charlie Munger
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Petulant CEOs & The Big Miss
Mike Tobias: Apr 29, 2023 4:54:19 PM
For one of the first times - in non-unionized, knowledge-based work that is - corporations are being forced to "deal" with the working conditions that their workers actually want rather than enforcing what the company (executives) believe is best. And it...
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AI Readiness & Orchestration
Mike Tobias: Apr 22, 2023 2:52:01 PM
I'm not an AI expert. And I don't pretend to fully comprehend what its impact will be. However, I get the same feeling from the currently available forms of Chatbots and AI that I had in 1991 when I was first exposed to the Internet.
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Avoiding Stupidity: De-Risking LegalTech Decisions
Mike Tobias: Jul 14, 2022 6:17:43 PM
If you’re an in-house counsel, there is little doubt that you are an expert in legal matters. You have the education, experience, and battle scars to bear witness to that. You can mine that vast experience when having to come up with snap judgements and...
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The Root of Corporate Legal Team Stress
Mike Tobias: Feb 4, 2022 12:00:00 AM
If yours is like most Corporate Legal Departments, you are already swamped with work, and the volume just keeps rising. The hours are long, and getting longer, and help might not be on the way.
Most budgets are not keeping pace with the increasing...
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Administrivia, Productivity & Burnout
Mike Tobias: Jan 24, 2022 12:00:00 AM
There are a host of reasons why our work hours continue to climb, even before the pandemic blurred the lines between work and non-work hours. One of the many culprits is the time we now spend on administrative work that we didn’t used to. Why is that?
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LexTech16 & High School Sex
Mike Tobias: Apr 27, 2016 12:00:00 AM
I always struggle to attend conferences. Partly because I’m introverted, and in part because I’m much more engaged by doing rather than talking about doing. It was a well executed conference, and I think very valuable for many. I felt particularly...
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Deja Vu or Vuja De?
Mike Tobias: Feb 10, 2016 12:00:00 AM
We all know the great Yogi Berra quote, "It's like deja vu all over again." Deja vu of course is the funny feeling we get that we've experienced something before. Typically, it's used as a way of characterizing something tedious or frustrating that is...
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High Heels & Big Data: When Fit is Critical
Mike Tobias: Dec 4, 2015 12:00:00 AM
I'm just a short way into Donald Sull and Kathleen Eisenhardt's excellent book, Simple Rules, and came across a passage that struck me as interesting given the breathless hype we're hearing around Big Data these days.
"Why can simpler models outperform...