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As you know, I’m getting ready to change teams at Microsoft. My current manager gave me the ok to spend a bit of time during my transition ramping up on my new team. It looks like I’m not going to get much of a chance to ramp up, but I think I will be able…

Another week that was just a bit too busy for me. Here’s some stuff I found – once again – worth giving a read. I’m super-excited to have Weta join Unity An interesting look, although unsurprising, at the former presidents’s view of the January 6 insurrection. This is a fascinating article on how Slack changed…

I intended for my last two posts to cover the main points of my STAR West keynote, but I neglected to mention a few of the books I referenced in my talk (which not coincidentally, are some of my most recommended books for those studying leadership. I first read Leadership on the Line as part…

Once again, I’m a day late, but who am I kidding – you read these on Monday anyway. This is a great article on why we’re so bad at software engineering As a self-proclaimed change agent, this article on change programs was interesting Ministry of Test is doing some podcast interviews with upcoming speakers. This…

Happy Friday! Here are a few interesting things I found this week. If you have somehow missed it, the word game wordle is fun, quick, and popular. I’ve played it about 20 times so far, and have managed to guess the word every time. If you enjoy wordle, and like mucking with stuff at the…

A twitter follower just told me that my five for friday didn’t show up. Yes, I’ve been busy, but mostly just dumb, as I somehow managed to write this, and not post it. Better late than never. This week has …not really been any better than last week. Lots of things happening, and only some…