{"id":2133,"date":"2022-11-25T20:29:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T04:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2022-11-27T20:45:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T04:45:35","slug":"five-for-friday-november-25-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-november-25-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; November 25, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Short work week this week, but I still found a few things worth sharing &#8211; but to be honest, I&#8217;ve watched 6-8 hours of world cup soccer every day this week (and will continue for the next few days until I only watch 4 hours a day).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We can lead with the thing that gives me great joy every 4 years &#8211; the World Cup. I found an interesting article on <a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/predicting-the-fifa-world-cup-2022-with-a-simple-model-using-python-6b34bdd4f2a5\">predicting the world cup winners in python<\/a>. Too early to know if it&#8217;s right or not, but (spoiler alert) I could have predicted France and Brazil as likely finalists without writing any code at all.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other than watching world cup, eating, and sleeping the only other thing I&#8217;ve done over the past few days is read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/42611483-escaping-the-build-trap\">Escaping the Build Trap<\/a> by Melissa Perri. It&#8217;s been on my Kindle for a while &#8211; and I&#8217;m bummed I waited to read it. It is so freaking good &#8211; and it made me realize how much good Product Management aligns with the Modern Testing Principles (likely more on that in the next AB Testing Podcast)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CNN did a nice article on what we&#8217;re doing with live sports at Unity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/sports\/2022\/11\/21\/volumetric-video-sport-spc-intl.cnn\">Sport like you&#8217;ve never seen it before<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In this week&#8217;s installment of &#8220;how bad is the twitter dumpster fire&#8221;, there&#8217;s this post &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/matthewtejo.substack.com\/p\/why-twitter-didnt-go-down-from-a\">Why Twitter Didn\u2019t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ve been trying to catch up on my backlog of podcasts. I&#8217;m a huge fan of the Smartless podcast &#8211; the hosts are funny, but they have fantastic guests. A few weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartless.com\/episodes\/episode\/23817f00\/president-joe-biden\">Joe Biden was on the show<\/a>. For the haters out there who may read my blog, I suggest you give it a listen. He&#8217;s smart, witty, and gives a pretty damn good interview. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s all I have. Time to go to bed so I can get up at 2:00am for Tunisia vs. Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short work week this week, but I still found a few things worth sharing &#8211; but to be honest, I&#8217;ve watched 6-8 hours of world cup soccer every day this week (and will continue for the next few days until I only watch 4 hours a day). That&#8217;s all I have. 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