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100% if this is on a metronome at the highest tick rate possible.

People get mad when they feel like they weren’t ready for training, but to your point, that’s why we train. To make you more aware when the real thing comes. Check all of your links. Verify it’s real before just clicking through.

The issue has come from some companies threatening jobs when people don’t perform properly. I would love it if people saw this as just training and not a personal attack. You fell for the trick now how do you not get tricked next time? It might help if we did a quarterly report and put it on the intranet for people to see how many got clicked. Don’t make it a Wall-of-Shame, but a report to see how good things have been going. Put out sample emails that were the trickiest and what were the tells. Make Security a thing that is a growth aspect, not a shaming tactic.

Oh man. This is brilliant for phishing training. Get through some armor. Don’t let your biases get in the way. You can do a variation around this theme. One could be similar to above. Another is one that says you can opt-into this kind of thing by “Managing Preferences”. You’ll hit a large swath of people without them paying too much attention. I like this.

Same, put it all on in the closet or next to the bed, depending on current shoe location.

People who are putting on socks and shoes to be presentable outside of their house and have been barefoot or in sandals up to this point.

You see, I’m the guy who gives his opinion in those. The trick is to be actionable. Don’t complain about things you can’t give direct advice on how to correct. Be kind in how you communicate and give the benefit of the doubt in all of the language.

Don’t: Your management style is shit

Do: It is difficult to complete my work with the lack of understanding on the business direction. I would like this communication to come from my direct manager.

Depends on the messenger. If someone comes and tells me I look good and they love me, but it’s the person who’s been throwing their dog’s feces over my fence for the last year, the message is very much overshadowed by the messenger.

“Secret” just like those emails I get from HR asking my opinions about management that are completely anonymous, but don’t forward this email or share the link with anyone else because it’s just for me…

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Can’t put the laptop down because he’s next to a pool to free up at least one hand.

The best I can advise for him is to chew up the cigar and chase it down with the espresso martini. Then throw the laptop into the sea like a discus and get into the pool to wait for the authorities to charge him with littering.

My wife has been doing this to start seeds for several years. Also fun for kids to plan their own and not make a huge mess. You don’t need to worry about taking it out of the “pot” before putting it in the ground or larger more permanent pot. Strong recommend.

How much money would one presume 5 beers would that it would cover this many beers? Even if you’re buying at a local convenience store or at your local alcohol store this would be around $50? Who walks up to a place, sees an order of what they assume is 5 beers for that price and thinks, “Yeah that’s a fair price.”

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It doesn’t always need to be useful. If the businesses are bought in, the students got the tools for free or were required to use them during their uni experience, and it’s now listed as a requirement on job listings it’s suddenly a need in society. That is already happening whether we like it or not.

This is how Microsoft has always done this adoption stuff. I’m surprised this is only coming out now. Probably has been happening to the larger institutions for much longer. They get the “next generation” hooked on free product that is part of the education system and then it’s just part of what they do naturally.

I was in college when .Net was just being rolled out and we all got free licenses to Visual Studio. Also had licenses for Adobe products and pretty much any other major player. Just had to ask the right IT person how to get a disc and license key. They only worked for 4-5 years before going dormant, but some of us kept in touch with internal staff and got it for several years after that as well.

If you’re in college, don’t fall for the free taste. There’s always a catch.

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Very interesting take on the Sudoku puzzle idea.

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