{"id":1822,"date":"2021-01-15T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T21:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2021-01-15T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T21:59:35","slug":"five-for-friday-january-15-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-january-15-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; January 15, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welp &#8211; it&#8217;s been another one of those weeks. Here&#8217;s some stuff I found that helped me get by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I&#8217;m still on a fiction break. This week, I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/26082916-ready-player-two\/\">Ready Player Two<\/a> &#8211; and it wasn&#8217;t bad. I definitely enjoyed the first book more, but this one was enjoyable and a good read (and I&#8217;m a sucker for all of the 80s pop culture references)<\/li><li>A lot of you may have heard me talk about how World of Warcraft and self-organizing teams are similar (I call it the World of Warcraft guide to Project Management). <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/professional-growth\/how-video-games-prepared-me-for-people-leadership-819608849103\">Here&#8217;s a recent post<\/a> with a very similar (and more in depth) take.<\/li><li>Another great article talking about the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/chiefofstaffnetwork\/2021-the-year-of-the-chief-of-staff-e84122eaa2ba\">rise of the chief of staff role<\/a>.<\/li><li>This article on why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mihaileric.com\/posts\/we-need-data-engineers-not-data-scientists\/\">we need data engineers and not data scientists<\/a> is well-written, logical, and IMO about time someone wrote this.<\/li><li>This is the last FfF I&#8217;ll ever write during the presidency of the worst human being ever to hold the office. If you&#8217;re out of the loop, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-pelosi\/u-s-pelosi-if-members-of-congress-helped-capitol-attack-should-be-prosecuted-idUSKBN29K26U\">read this<\/a> to see how fucked up things are in the U.S. right now.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp &#8211; it&#8217;s been another one of those weeks. Here&#8217;s some stuff I found that helped me get by. I&#8217;m still on a fiction break. This week, I read Ready Player Two &#8211; and it wasn&#8217;t bad. I definitely enjoyed the first book more, but this one was enjoyable and a good read (and I&#8217;m&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"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\/1822","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=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}