{"id":1708,"date":"2020-03-13T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T22:47:16","slug":"five-for-friday-march-13-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-march-13-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; March 13, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s the WFH edition of FfF &#8211; which isn&#8217;t really any different from any other edition of FfF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ministry of Test had to cancel two of their conferences this week. They are such a fantastic resource for anyone interested in quality &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ministryoftesting.com\/membership\">if you don&#8217;t have a Pro membership <\/a>with them (ridiculously cheap at ~$300), please look at the benefits and consider it.<br \/>Brent doesn&#8217;t know it yet, but I think we&#8217;re going to figure out how to give away a Pro membership at some point to someone deserving.<\/li><li>Speaking of supporting good stuff with $$, I finally bought a membership to <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/\">Medium<\/a>. I was getting around their article limits by reading in incognito windows &#8211; or avoiding articles I didn&#8217;t think would be worth my 3-per-week limit, but I realized that I could just save myself a few hundred or more dollars worth of time by buying a year membership for the price of a craft cocktail in Manhattan.<\/li><li>This article on <a href=\"https:\/\/forge.medium.com\/how-to-talk-to-an-employee-obsessed-with-promotion-ab31e44daed2\">what to do with an employee obsessed with promotion<\/a> brought back a lot of memories of msft &#8211; but had some good advice as well.<\/li><li>I love (LOVE!) this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/03\/productive-innovation#building-a-culture-of-experimentation\">Building a Culture of Experimentation <\/a>from HBR. I may have to subscribe there as well&#8230;<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun this week playing <a href=\"https:\/\/hryanjones.com\/guess-my-word\/#\">Guess My Word<\/a>. Good luck with your binary searching. My record this week is finding a word in 9 guesses in just under a minute (normal).<br \/>Good luck.<br \/><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the WFH edition of FfF &#8211; which isn&#8217;t really any different from any other edition of FfF Ministry of Test had to cancel two of their conferences this week. 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