{"id":1170,"date":"2017-12-01T09:50:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2017-12-01T09:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:51:51","slug":"five-for-friday-december-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-december-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; December 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my favorite \/ most interesting thoughts and links from the week&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yet another quote from one of my heroes, Simon Sinek: &#8220;<strong>There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.<\/strong>&#8221; I half-jokingly told someone on my team this week that &#8220;leadership is manipulation&#8221;, and it reminded me of this quote. The two sides of the &#8220;or&#8221; have similarities and marked differences that are important to remember.<\/li>\n<li>The Tester&#8217;s Island Disc podcast with me came out early this morning.\u00a0https:\/\/dojo.ministryoftesting.com\/lessons\/testers-island-discs-ep-5-alan-page<\/li>\n<li>We all heard about the apple root password bug this week. What you may have missed, is this nice writeup on <a href=\"https:\/\/objective-see.com\/blog\/blog_0x24.html\">what exactly was wrong<\/a> (I love debugging &#8211; if you do too, you&#8217;ll like this).<\/li>\n<li>I discovered a test conference (<a href=\"http:\/\/europeantestingconference.blogspot.fi\/2017\/09\/announcing-awesome-program.html\">European Testing Conference<\/a>) that wasn&#8217;t on my radar,\u00a0<em>and<\/em> looks interesting. Program looks good, and hope it continues.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a big (HUUUGE) fan of soccer, and last night, it was great to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundersfc.com\/\">home team<\/a> make it to the MLS Cup. I will be in Moscow for the final (kickoff will be midnight, local time), but hope I can find a place to watch it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my favorite \/ most interesting thoughts and links from the week&#8230; Yet another quote from one of my heroes, Simon Sinek: &#8220;There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.&#8221; I half-jokingly told someone on my team this week that &#8220;leadership is manipulation&#8221;, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-five-for-friday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}