Employment Law Office of Frank Pray

12/15/2023

Here's a dumbed-down explanation for us mere mortals on how future computers can process massive amounts of data necessary for generative AI, for example, or to break encryption codes. It all happens in the subatomic world of measuring probabilities.

A visual guide to the end of encryption as we know it.

05/14/2022

04/26/2022

07/07/2020

10/04/2017

Gearing up for trial in two weeks and recovering from jetlag.

10/03/2017

Just returned from 2 weeks in Seoul South Korea. Beautiful city and wonderful people.

11/01/2016

We put our experience into mental file cabinets. If a new person or event occurs, we search for the right cabinet. But what if the label doesn't fit, and our assumptions are out of sync with reality?

10/30/2016

Bias may be built into our neural pathways. We can't eliminate bias, but we can mitigate the harm it causes at work.

10/28/2016

Twenty cognitive biases that hurt your career.

10/26/2016

Bias is efficient: we size up things quickly and make snap decisions. But efficiency can lead to major mistakes. People especially can harm other people with quick assumptions of "good" or "bad."

10/24/2016

What we accept as "evidence" is often tainted by our bias. We reject what doesn't fit within our pre-existing frame of reference. This can be disastrous for management-employee relations.

10/22/2016

We can easily convince ourselves we are acting from objective truth when our cognitive bias filters out unwanted information. As a result, our work relationships suffer.

10/20/2016

Bias. You got it. I got it. Let's do something about it -- at work.

10/18/2016

Many frames of reference mean many biases at work. How to mitigate the effects of implicit bias.

10/16/2016

You Can't Fix What You Don't See as Broken. An Exercise in Self-Examination.

10/14/2016

Twenty Cognitive Biases that Sabotage You at Work.

10/12/2016

How Unconscious Bias Affects Your Workplace Relationships

10/10/2016

Bias: A Workplace Self-Asssessment Checklist