Five for Friday – January 26, 2018

I’m back working again – or I guess I should say je suis de retour. I took a few weeks off in southwestern France, one thing led to another, and I decided to stay a bit longer than I originally planned. I’m working remotely for a week or two before returning stateside. It’s nice to…

Amazon just started sharing Nielsen BookScan reports to authors. Since I don’t get commissions for How We Test Software at Microsoft (hwtsam), I don’t generally see sales numbers, but I’m happy to see that people still buy the book (note for internal readers – orders through msmarket do not reflect in the BookScan ratings). Anyway…

This has been an interesting week – both in world news, and my life (probably more on that on my weekly substack posts, which you should sign up for). Here are a few things I found interesting this week. That’s it for cool links this week. Thanks for reading – we’ll try this again in…

Today I saw yet another info-byte on the perils of multi-tasking. I too, think that multitasking is rarely (if ever) as productive as multitaskers believe it is (note: my favorite study compares bong hits with multitasking…ymmv) – but we’ve all seen stuff like this over time. What’s missing from many of the studies and stories…

I’m back home and back at work…and slowly getting used to both. It was by far the best (and longest) vacation I’ve had (or will probably ever have). While it’s good to be home, it’s a bit weird getting used to working again after so much time off (just over 8 weeks in total). But…

Happy Friday everyone – here’s some stuff to dump from my head to yours. As I type this, I’m listening to Dead Man’s Pop – the remixed version of the Replacement’s Don’t Tell a Soul. I was/am a big Replacement’s fan, and these recordings are all kinds of excellent. This article on how Boeing’s Managerial…