{"id":1221,"date":"2018-02-09T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2018-04-06T13:05:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:05:47","slug":"five-for-friday-february-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-february-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; February 9, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>While recording the upcoming (episode 75) AB Testing podcast, Brent reminded me of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Starfish_and_the_Spider\">The Starfish and the Spider<\/a> &#8211; and pointed out that my personal mission right now involves me transitioning my org from a spider to a starfish.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<em>try<\/em> to read one book at a time. I also\u00a0<em>try<\/em> to not buy books I don&#8217;t plan to read in the short term future. I succeed at this more than I used to, but it&#8217;s still a growth area for me. There&#8217;s a Japanese word for this, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsundoku\">Tsundoku<\/a>&#8221; that really needs an English equivalent<\/li>\n<li>Maaret Pyh\u00e4j\u00e4rvi is one of the best, and most prolific software bloggers I know. <a href=\"http:\/\/visible-quality.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/the-war-of-ownership.html\">Her latest post<\/a> is worth a read.<\/li>\n<li>My favorite quote of the week is from Daniel Pink&#8217;s When (I&#8217;m still working through it). In the book, he discusses the benefits of the 20-25 minute power nap, and how the value is intensified by drinking caffeine\u00a0just\u00a0<em>before<\/em> the nap (caffeine takes 20-25 minutes to hit the blood stream. &#8220;<em>The most efficient nap is the nappuccino.<\/em>&#8221; (Unity needs nap rooms)<\/li>\n<li>Finally, we saw a machine learning breakthrough &lt;\/sarcasm&gt; last month that I find worth sharing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/01\/nicolas-cage-machine-learning-algorithm-deep-fakes-1201923224\/\">The world needs more Nicholas Cage<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While recording the upcoming (episode 75) AB Testing podcast, Brent reminded me of The Starfish and the Spider &#8211; and pointed out that my personal mission right now involves me transitioning my org from a spider to a starfish. I\u00a0try to read one book at a time. I also\u00a0try to not buy books I don&#8217;t&#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-1221","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\/1221","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=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}