Brian Foster’s Post

Sometimes checking "all" the boxes leaves the most important ones as glaring holes. Your ability to simply GSD without drama, confidently approaching your job, delivering like a badass, and not requiring any attention or spotlights. Imagine, going to work, executing, being relied upon and instilling confidence in your team just by bringing "it" every day. Somehow this is lost in 2024. Candidates aren't bringing "it" and companies aren't doing a good enough job of finding "it" ... yet "it" is how shit gets done. The inspiration you seek is on the bottom of this picture, not the top.

In a few years you can replace AI with (post) Quantum.

We use lots of tech including AI to recruit new franchisees for our clients at Franchise UK & Infinity Business Growth Network BUT we always remember people buy from people. Our tech including the AI is used to start the conversations & relationships. It's our people that deliver the results! If you are growing your franchise network speak to Gene Astell (VFP) & Kashif Iqbal #franchising #ai #sales #peoplebuyfrompeople #franchiseerecruitment

Cannot agree more

The meme? It’s funny, because it’s true. I like and use and recommend a great many Microsoft products, but Microsoft Copilot Plus is a hard pass for me. I am a data privacy advocate. I am incredibly concerned about user data privacy, biometric rights and telemetric rights. Despite being a Microsoft Regional Director, (expert advisory position) I cannot in good conscience recommend a service that takes constant snapshots of one's screen and effectively acts like a keylogger. While, I have not tested it, the entire process sounds energy inefficient, processor intensive, memory intensive, and storage intensive. There are serious potential security risks. And it still feels like a solution in search of a problem. I don’t need a backseat driver when I’m using an operating system. And I certainly don’t need an AI screenshotting and keylogging everything I do. Both for a personal and a business standpoint, this sounds like a privacy nightmare across so many different vectors. It’s almost hard to describe them all. Imagine a border crossing where a foreign government scrolls through your Recall cache. Invasive and terrifying right? ----- The Verge: "What will Microsoft’s Recall remember? From the FAQ: 📎“You can select specific apps or websites visited in a supported browser to filter out of your snapshots.” 📎“Recall also does not take snapshots of certain kinds of content, including InPrivate web browsing sessions in Microsoft Edge.” 📎“Recall will not store DRM content.” 📎“Note that Recall does not perform content moderation.” 📎“It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers.” The Verge: https://lnkd.in/gRJfsiiq ----- "Microsoft Screenshots EVERYTHING Using Copilot" YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gqGpEy6K #1984 #georgeorwell #dystopianfuture #dystopia #voyeur #spyware #ai #fakeai #genai #generativeai #degenai #degenerativeai #aijailer

How do you start your Windows :))))

Switching to Linux in my personal life to get ahead of Windows 11.

I've been thinking about this for a while now and it really seems to me like a lot of applications are getting objectively worse as the years go on. All the MS Office suite for instance, used to have auto-save. Now MS only enables this feature if your document is saved on their cloud. Speaking of which, OneDrive used to (IMHO) be the best cloud backup service. Now, I find it extremely difficult to use, especially when you have multiple accounts.

If you are often using the word "retraining" in your investigations, you have a problem in the site quality culture. If you are using retrain in your annual training plan, your quality culture is working properly. Be proactive, not reactive!