{"id":1488,"date":"2018-11-02T09:53:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2018-11-02T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:53:20","slug":"five-for-friday-november-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-november-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; November 2, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m getting to a stage in my career where I&#8217;m beginning to realize that some of my biggest growth happens when I&#8217;m doing nothing but thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, I did leave my head a few times this week and found a few interesting things to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Quote I&#8217;m thinking about: &#8220;<em>A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.&#8221;<\/em> \u2013 Ayn Rand<\/li><li>If you&#8217;re reading this in the US, please vote. If you&#8217;re not in a mail-to-vote state (or even if you are), there&#8217;s likely relevant information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usa.gov\/election-day\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li><li>This article that asks,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowablemagazine.org\/article\/society\/2018\/it-time-bring-data-managing\">Is it time to bring data to managing?<\/a> brought back a few memories of the awful performance management at msft &#8211; along with some reasonable ideas on doing better.\u00a0<\/li><li>Also on the leadership front is this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/marcel-schwantes\/how-can-you-be-sure-someone-has-true-leadership-skills-watch-for-these-3-rare-signs.html\">leading with love<\/a> (actual title is less fluffy). It reminds me of the\u00a0<em>care personally<\/em> aspect of Radical Candor, which is something I continually try to do better.<\/li><li>I love solving debugging mysteries and figuring out those WTF moments in software. I found this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.api2pdf.com\/a-debugging-story-amazon-s3-lambda-timeouts-contentoperationnotpermitted-wkhtmltopdf-headless-chrome\/\">debugging an AWS issue<\/a> that was fun to follow. One punchline &#8211; &#8220;<em>Why Amazon S3 returns two different errors for the same problem is beyond me, but that\u2019s not important here.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting to a stage in my career where I&#8217;m beginning to realize that some of my biggest growth happens when I&#8217;m doing nothing but thinking. But, I did leave my head a few times this week and found a few interesting things to share. 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