Beware of people selling snake oil disguised as 'remote work' advice
In times of desperation and needing expert advice, you need to worry about the credentials of the person giving you the information.
At this moment, I see way too much wrong information is being 'freely' given out disguised as 'free help' to hook you into the crap they're trying to sell to you.
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so the weekends come and gone it's
getting crazy
crazier out there I don't want to talk
about what's going on because I there's
no point having another voice talking
about this there's more than more than
enough information out there what I talk
about is tech minimalism and so on
however over the weekend
I've been fuming my blood has been
boiling I've been getting completely
pissed off about the [ __ ] out there then
I made a video about this about digital
transformations and facilitation and
stuff like that certain people certain
companies are selling snake oil about
regarding this remote work stuff now
I've been working on my own and I guess
remotely for many many years I know
pretty much all the tools that are out
there working with so many different
kind of types of clients and loads of
different clients and the amount of bad
advice that these people have just
crawled out of the woodwork giving you
is beyond laughable sorry hey wolf and
it's getting to a point where I'm
getting fed up and to be honest that I
I'm thinking of just stopping giving
advice because no one's really listening
which is fine but they're just listening
to people who can shout louder and I'm
not one for shouting how people should
work I will give the information out
there but I'm not one to try to sell it
it might come across that way but that's
not what I do but the amount of really
really bad information out there okay
what happened a few years ago was gdpr
and these people out of nowhere all of a
sudden turned up to be gdpr experts
which
and they gave bad advice to a lot of
people and some people I know and
exactly the same thing how is happening
right now with remote work now there are
people and companies that know what
they're doing and know what they're
talking about but just be careful as to
who you watch on YouTube and who you
watch on LinkedIn LinkedIn and I'm
seriously thinking of stopping using
LinkedIn because it's getting to a stage
where people people who are there are
things called pods and I got this
information from a guy called Mike Wynn
it and pods are basically a bunch of
people sharing the same if airing and
liking this group a pod is a basically a
group of people and you can pay to get
into this pot so every one of them
whether it's 500 people a thousand
people 20 people will like and share
that information and a pod has become
quite a big thing on LinkedIn so all
these posts that you see with loads of
likes and loads of shares and it is if
even if you look at the comment saying I
like this content or the [ __ ] does that
mean about the content just irritates
the [ __ ] out of me so be careful as to
who you listen to specifically where we
are at the moment in the world and
specifically is specific to remote work
don't listen to everyone out there a
heck who knows I might be giving you the
right or wrong advice right writers for
the insula anyway be careful out there
make sure you've got enough toilet paper
[ __ ] you know can't believe I'm making a
video about this um be careful out there
keep it simple and I'll see you in the
next episode
you can see how pissed off I am see you
later bye bye