{"id":2102,"date":"2022-09-02T14:52:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T21:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2022-09-02T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T21:52:59","slug":"five-for-friday-september-2-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-september-2-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; September 2, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We made it to September. I&#8217;ve been going to the office a bit more, doing a small bit of traveling, and hoping the world can get to a better state. Here are some interesting articles I found this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Some offices are back at work at almost pre-pandemic levels &#8211; while others are still ghost towns. I came across this article (mostly a collection of anecdotes) on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelowdownblog.com\/2022\/08\/why-many-leaders-believe-getting.html\">Why Many Leaders Believe Getting Employees Back In the Office Is Now or Never<\/a> that captures a lot of what I&#8217;ve heard and expect.<\/li><li>This is a really well written post on how we solve problems &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/riclage.medium.com\/what-problem-are-you-trying-to-solve-b7ac284244b9\">What problem are you trying to solve?<\/a><\/li><li>There&#8217;s been a bit of a buzz recently around &#8220;quiet quitting&#8221; &#8211; and HBR has a great article this week showing that <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2022\/08\/quiet-quitting-is-about-bad-bosses-not-bad-employees\">bad management plays a huge part in the buzz<\/a>.<\/li><li>Imposing standards is tough &#8211; and honestly, the wrong way to drive alignment in most situations. This article on <a href=\"https:\/\/jchyip.medium.com\/guiding-principle-cross-pollination-over-imposed-standards-a2375d0e8de6\">cross-pollination over imposed standards<\/a> from Jason Yip is full of great ideas and advice.<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve always been a huge fan of Ronny Kohavi&#8217;s work in online experiments, and I&#8217;m finally getting around to reading his wonderful (so far) book &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/51635906-trustworthy-online-controlled-experiments\">Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A\/B Testing<\/a>. It&#8217;s easy to read, and full of fun informatin.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this week. If you have a long weekend, enjoy it. See you in a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made it to September. I&#8217;ve been going to the office a bit more, doing a small bit of traveling, and hoping the world can get to a better state. 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