{"id":1195,"date":"2018-01-19T06:48:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2018-04-06T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:06:14","slug":"five-for-friday-january-19-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-january-19-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; January 19, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Quote I&#8217;ve been pondering:\u00a0&#8220;<em>An expert is not someone that gives you the answer, it is someone that asks you the right question.<\/em>&#8221; \u2014Eli Goldratt<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the new-employee experience recently, and recalled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3058154\/why-this-tech-company-starts-new-hires-on-fridays-and-why-you-should-too\">this article<\/a> about starting new employees on\u00a0<em>Friday<\/em>. It&#8217;s something I want to try.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m traveling this week, and wanted to give a shoutout to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osprey.com\/ca\/en\/product\/ozone-travel-pack-46-OZONE46.html\">Osprey Ozone 46<\/a>. I never check a bag, and this bag holds everything I need for a week, along with my electronics, etc. If not fully packed, I can shove it under a seat, but my assumption is that since it&#8217;s a backpack, I&#8217;ll never be asked to gate check it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwmkerr.com\/the-death-of-microservice-madness-in-2018\/\">Yet-another-article-on-microservices<\/a> worth reading.<\/li>\n<li>I may have mentioned before my admiration for Simon Sinek. I don&#8217;t normally like &#8220;fluffy&#8221; books, but I just gave my leads at Unity a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/startwithwhy.com\/shop\/books\/together-is-better\">Better Together<\/a>, as I&#8217;ve found so many great quotes and so much inspiration from this little book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote I&#8217;ve been pondering:\u00a0&#8220;An expert is not someone that gives you the answer, it is someone that asks you the right question.&#8221; \u2014Eli Goldratt I&#8217;ve been thinking about the new-employee experience recently, and recalled this article about starting new employees on\u00a0Friday. It&#8217;s something I want to try. I&#8217;m traveling this week, and wanted to give&#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-1195","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\/1195","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=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}