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Searching Google Prompts Us To Over-Inflate Our Knowledge

The Horizons Tracker

Research from the McCombs School of Business suggests this may have consequences, however, with it causing us to forget quite where our own knowledge ends and that of the internet begins. This suggests that the speed of answers from the search engine is a factor in our over-inflated view of our knowledge. ” Our digital brain.

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How to Manage an Insecure Employee

Harvard Business Review

Insecure employees are “hard to evaluate, hard to coach, and hard to develop,” says Ethan Burris, an associate professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. “Peter was a computer science engineer who’d been programming for 10 years — the basic founding blocks were there.