{"id":1996,"date":"2021-11-26T10:43:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T18:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2021-11-26T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T18:43:10","slug":"five-for-friday-november-26-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-november-26-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; November 26, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s Thanksgiving in the US &#8211; well, yesterday was. Instead of links this week, I&#8217;d like to share 5 things I&#8217;m thankful for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I&#8217;m thankful for Brent Jensen for dealing with my crap on the AB Testing podcast. Those bi-weekly discussions have helped me work through a lot of questions over the years, and I&#8217;m still amazed that all 3 listeners seem to enjoy our rants.<\/li><li>I&#8217;m thankful to the folks on Twitter and LinkedIn who challenge me, disagree with me, and make me think about where I stand. As you all know, some of my principles are bread and butter to some &#8211; but ridiculously stupid to others, and hearing from both sides helps me refine and grow<\/li><li>Believe it or not, I&#8217;m thankful for Slack, Discord, Zoom, and all of the other tools that have helped me stay connected with colleagues and family over the last year and a half. I can&#8217;t imagine what the pandemic would have been like 20 years ago.<\/li><li>I&#8217;m thankful for Instacart &#8211; it seems extravagant, but having my groceries delivered &#8211; even now when I feel a bit safer going to the store is a huge time save for me and well worth the delivery cost and extravagant tips I leave.<\/li><li>Finally, I&#8217;m thankful to Unity for giving a much better work experience than I ever had before, and for trusting me to be the type of leader that I want to be &#8211; and for handling the WFH experience as well as I could ever expect.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope the US readers all have a great long weekend, and that everyone in the rest of the world enjoyed the quiet communication over the last few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Thanksgiving in the US &#8211; well, yesterday was. Instead of links this week, I&#8217;d like to share 5 things I&#8217;m thankful for. I&#8217;m thankful for Brent Jensen for dealing with my crap on the AB Testing podcast. Those bi-weekly discussions have helped me work through a lot of questions over the years, 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-1996","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\/1996","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=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}