Ben Schorr

Have you considered having your AI tool generate a morning briefing for you automatically? What sort of info might you want it to include if you did? Maybe a list of the highest priority email messages that are waiting for you, a quick update on your day's meetings, maybe top news headlines?

Just a personal thing, but I'm more likely to trust Claude's Duet than Meta's Muse. I think it's just because Facebook's business model traditionally has been all about selling their users to advertisers and surveilling us at every turn.

Ctrl+W on your keyboard will close your current browser tab. Just sayin'.

When the Scaffolding Disappears: How to Get Back on Track After Life Disrupts Your Systems buff.ly/yI9iWIY This is one of the most useful and important things I've read in a long time. We all experience disruptions to our routine. What's important is how we get back on our feet.

I'm pleased to see that new #Outlook has the same non-contiguous days calendar feature that Classic Outlook always had. It's a sneaky handy trick.

If you use Microsoft Bookings, it's easy to add a link to your Bookings page to your Outlook signature block. In New Outlook, in the signature editor, look for the checkbox. If you're a Classic #Outlook user, you can make this setting in Outlook on the web, and it still works in Classic Outlook.

Tired of #Outlook popping up reminders for calendar events that happened last week? There is a setting you can use to automatically dismiss them. In Outlook, File > Options, Advanced > Automatically dismiss reminders for past calendar events.

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as AI leads to efficiency push buff.ly/3LLDTzn Wow. If they see similar numbers to the Voluntary Retirement Program, more than 18K people could leave. A massive brain drain. 😢Entire teams could be eliminated & core functions seriously impacted.

Last night Stephanie A. Everett & Zack Glaser won an American Legal Tech Award for The Lawyerist Podcast. A well-deserved award in my opinion. I've been fortunate to be a guest on the show a few times over the years. And Zack is one of the best podcast interviewers in the business in my experience.

GitHub needs a UX designer.

Hey Fred Meyer... Remind me not to eat at your bbq.

Go home, Quora, you're drunk.

IT department and auditors at major pharmacy chain got into a rip-roaring fight about using 'password' on Cisco firewall buff.ly/ndPD9Vf The plot twist at the end.

Who Has the Keys to Your Law Firm’s Technology? Why Lawyers Need to Maintain Control of Their Firm’s Accounts, Credentials and Data | Oklahoma Bar Association buff.ly/TD6gsJG Some great advice here from Julie Bays.

Amazon has spoiled us. I ordered something from a different vendor and am getting reminded how delivery used to be.

The ILTA folks certainly picked a beautiful venue for ILTCON this year.

Concept Global's customer service is very good, but their products seem to ship by Pony Express.

Natural language dates are one of my favorite secret features in Classic #Outlook.

Copilot Pages: Work side by side with AI buff.ly/LxyAucM I don't use Copilot pages very consistently, but on the occasions when I have, I've found them somewhat useful. I have the sense that there's more value there than I've found.

"There is a lot of work like that where a single error is multiplicative." ― Ethan Mollick on the O-ring model for AI and work He's talking about the Challenger explosion where a million parts work perfectly, but one failing O-ring was disaster. Underscores the necessity for human review in AI.

I often use both Copilot and Claude at work, and I'm sometimes going back and forth between them. To make it easier for me to see which tool I'm currently looking at, I have Claude in dark mode and Copilot in light mode. #Tip

22+ years and you still haven't gotten a real domain to do business from? Pass.

Cloudflare's verification tool has decided that I'm a bot. This fails for me about 50% of the time lately, it seems. 😠

Another small but helpful use case for AI. I connected my paid ChatGPT account to my Gmail. And now I'm able to tell ChatGPT to do some cleanup on my mailbox for me. Small task, but very helpful and saves me some time.

"Thank you for contacting the safety department. We take the responsibilities of harnessing AI extremely seriously and will always do so in a way that's compatible with a successful IPO." Funny, but also basically true.

I really wish we could easily add skills to #Copilot Studio agents. Currently I have a gap where some of the connectors I need are only available in Copilot Studio, but only Agent Builder agents can have skills attached.

Does anyone actually find the #Teams missed activity emails useful? To me, they're just spam, and I can't imagine wanting them at all much less every ten minutes.