Five for Friday – March 14, 2025

My calendar has been…exploding lately (all good meetings – just re-org aftermath). I’ve been using reclaim.ai to keep an eye on meeting trends and to automatically block out 30-60 minutes every afternoon in order to make sure I don’t get too far behind. Here’s a nice article asking, Do I need Kubernetes Old article, but…

Not a bad week – not a great week – but it was a week. Here are some things new to me that you may like. I’ve talked (I think) about Pat Lencioni’s idea of Working Genius before, but the book arrived recently, and I read the entire thing in two sittings. Business fables aren’t…

Here are a few of the things I found interesting this week. I thought this article about “hacking” British Airways was sort of interesting – but mainly that they glossed over the real hack – “It is likely that the hackers had access to the BA.com site, and modified the code to insert a backdoor.” Read…

Short story is that TestBash may be my new favorite testing conference. Great venue (no, fantastic venue), well-organized, and excellent variety and diversity across the different presentations. I was reflecting while walking the streets of Philadelphia this morning and realized that almost every talk was experiential – filled with stories of problem solving and discovery. For those who…

Calendar math says I’m a few hours into the 39th day since I started at Unity. I’m still well within the honeymoon window, but my optimism and excitement about working here continue to grow. It’s just a pretty damn cool place to work. I’ve met most of my team face to face, and will spend more…