{"id":2174,"date":"2023-03-10T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:38:13","slug":"five-for-friday-march-10-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-march-10-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; March 10, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been an odd week with lots going on&#8230;and little going on at the same time. I&#8217;m taking some time off, starting with a ski trip next week that I hope goes as well as I imagine. In the meantime, as usual, I found a few things worth sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;ve been away from Microsoft for over six years now, and it&#8217;s finally happened. Microsoft is (apparently) <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2023\/02\/how-microsoft-became-innovative-again\">becoming innovative again<\/a>. I don&#8217;t quite believe it yet, but I trust HBR to not write bullshit, so I look forward to seeing what happens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adam Grant&#8217;s latest post \/ newsletter on <a href=\"https:\/\/adamgrant.substack.com\/p\/mbti-if-you-want-me-back-you-need\">Meyers-Briggs limitations<\/a> is spot-fucking-on. While I find <em>some<\/em> value in MBTI, I take it with a huge grain of salt (or ignore it altogether). I have taken the Big Five survey he mentions (I took it several years ago, and again after reading this article, and I remain &#8220;The Explorer&#8221;).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I liked this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/3\/6\/23627875\/twitter-outage-how-it-happened-engineer-api-shut-down\">how a single engineer brought twitter down<\/a>. But &#8211; first off, it&#8217;s worth noting that people are never to blame for incidents like this (with the exception of blaming Elon) &#8211; production incidents happen because the company creates an environment where making errors like this is possible. <em>\/me makes mental note that this could be a good blog post on its own someday&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some great advice from Roy Rapaport on <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@royrapoport\/wait-f91f6efd28de\">waiting before sending that angry email<\/a>. There was so much I could relate to in this post from my early career (and more recent times as well).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And finally, another link for the local folks. I went to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattlerep.org\/plays\/202223-season\/between-two-knees\/\">Between Two Knees<\/a> at Seattle Rep last weekend, and it&#8217;s fantastic. It has a perfect balance between comedy and guilt that probably plays out best in the pacific northwest anyway. I highly recommend it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this week. Next week may be entirely ski pictures, but we&#8217;ll see what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an odd week with lots going on&#8230;and little going on at the same time. I&#8217;m taking some time off, starting with a ski trip next week that I hope goes as well as I imagine. In the meantime, as usual, I found a few things worth sharing. That&#8217;s all for this week. 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