{"id":1158,"date":"2017-11-17T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2017-12-01T09:51:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:51:41","slug":"five-for-friday-november-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-november-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; November 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m heading back into a flurry of travel after taking it light for several months. This time, I plan to take Austin Kleon&#8217;s advice on <a href=\"https:\/\/austinkleon.com\/2017\/08\/03\/never-pay-for-wi-fi\/\">Never pay for wi-fi<\/a> to heart and take the travel time purely for reading, drawing, and reflecting.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m still reading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pragprog.com\/book\/ahptl\/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning\">Pragmatic Thinking and Learning<\/a>\u00a0and thinking a lot about the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition\">Dreyfus model of skill acquisition<\/a>, and how &#8220;Advanced Beginners&#8221; due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect\">Dunning-Kruger<\/a> effect, often overestimate their (our) skills. In knowledge work, we see this all the time, and it&#8217;s good to notice it and see how we can help with the inherent problems with this.<\/li>\n<li>Marcus Purvis share this article from Pinterest on (more) <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@sarahtavel\/five-more-lessons-from-scaling-pinterest-9c10fe97d325\">Lessons from Scaling Pinterest<\/a>. This is a follow up to some earlier points (link in article), but this one is a lot about leadership, and a lot of good lessons for those in leadership positions.<\/li>\n<li>Last week at the (internal) test summit, one of my employees re-introduced me to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtworks.com\/insights\/blog\/introducing-software-testing-cupcake-anti-pattern\">Software Testing Cupcake anti-pattern<\/a>. It was relevant, funny, and worth reading for everyone.<\/li>\n<li>If you want learn more about Unicode, get some new testing ideas, or just want to see some scary exploits, check out this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/gojko.net\/2017\/11\/07\/five-things-about-unicode.html\">Five things everyone should know about Unicode<\/a> by Gojko Adzic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading back into a flurry of travel after taking it light for several months. This time, I plan to take Austin Kleon&#8217;s advice on Never pay for wi-fi to heart and take the travel time purely for reading, drawing, and reflecting. 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