{"id":1175,"date":"2017-12-15T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2017-12-15T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T22:30:12","slug":"five-for-friday-december-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-december-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; December 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed my string of FfF posts as an easy way to share stuff I like with little need to elaborate. It *will* continue, but I&#8217;m going to take a break for the last two weeks of the year. FfF will be back on January 5, 2018.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I recently read Ray Dalio&#8217;s,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.principles.com\/\"><em>Principles<\/em><\/a>. In the preface, he has a line that rings true (I think) to all of us who suffer from impostor&#8217;s syndrome.<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong><em>Before I begin telling you what I think, I want to establish that I\u2019m a \u201cdumb shit\u201d who doesn\u2019t know much relative to what I need to know.<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; That give me reason enough to keep on reading and learning more about what makes Ray tick.<\/li>\n<li>On my last team at Microsoft, the team started using Git, and became over-excited about Gitflow &#8211; which I often describe as source control for those who like to add extra layers of confusion to their source control and release. We eventually treated &#8216;master&#8217; as a release tag, and were (I think) close to working out of a single trunk. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/trunkbaseddevelopment.com\/\">Trunk-Based Development<\/a> is a thing, and I think it&#8217;s a good thing.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a huge believer in 20% time (invented by GM, and popularized by google as a way to give people a chance to self-direct and learn). I recently discovered that <a href=\"https:\/\/education.cu-portland.edu\/blog\/classroom-resources\/20-percent-time-projects\/\">schools are using the concept<\/a> to give students alternate opportunities to learn and grow.<\/li>\n<li>A rare shot at cross-promotion. The year-ending episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/ABTesting\">AB Testing<\/a> will be out Monday. I&#8217;m really happy with how the podcast has developed and matured over the last few years.<\/li>\n<li>Brent Jensen and I often discuss\u00a0<em>Modern Testing<\/em> &#8211; but I recently discovered that\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/modernagile.org\/\">Modern Agile<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is also a thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See you in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed my string of FfF posts as an easy way to share stuff I like with little need to elaborate. It *will* continue, but I&#8217;m going to take a break for the last two weeks of the year. FfF will be back on January 5, 2018. I recently read Ray Dalio&#8217;s,\u00a0Principles. 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