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I’m sitting in a hotel room in Munich. I’m slightly jet lagged (I’ll recover by tomorrow), but feeling better than I’ve felt in a week. I’m feeling so good, in fact that I have an abundance of "things" I feel like writing about. If you don’t want to read a non-testing related post (or partially…

I am going to take the rest of the year off from bullet points (and computers as much as I can) while I catch up on rest and other odds and ends. That said, here’s the final five for 2018. A huge, HUGE shoutout to heytaco – they have a fun “reward” system for slack…

When I meet new people, they often ask, “what do you do?” The answer I give initially, and the one I hope to get away with is, “I work at Microsoft.” It rarely works. They inevitably follow up with, “what do you do there?” – which, for better or for worse is a much more…

Friday again – and it’s a beautiful day in Seattle. Here are some things I found today that maybe you want to know about too. …and yes, I do feel bad about those two puzzles where I couldn’t solve the word. Anyway, I thought this analysis on wordle letter usage was really well done –…

Travel week, so I spent a bit less time on the internet, but still have a few things to share. Thanks again for reading – have a great weekend.

Back again for another week of random crap I enjoyed from the internet. This is a wonderful article on helping your teams with burnout. My talk on Leading a Quality Culture from Testing Festival is available here – no paywall, just click play. How often do you ask someone how it’s going and they respond,…