{"id":2323,"date":"2024-03-22T14:17:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T21:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2024-03-22T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T21:18:00","slug":"five-for-friday-march-22-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-march-22-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; March 22, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I journeyed into public last weekend&#8230;and caught a cold. Fortunately, I&#8217;m well on the mend, but after a whole lot of isolation over the last four years, being sick is rare &#8211; in face, other than my one time bout of COVID last August, this has probably been the only time I&#8217;ve been sick since 2019 or earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway &#8211; I still had a lot of time to find a few interesting things worth sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maaret&#8217;s latest post on <a href=\"https:\/\/visible-quality.blogspot.com\/2024\/03\/urban-legends-fact-checking-and.html\">Urban Legends, Fact Checking and Speaking in Conferences<\/a> was a good read, and it was a strong reminder to me how often folks base talks and articles on half-truths or non-researched anecdotes. Presentations (IMO) are <em>primarily<\/em> entertainment, but I think fact checking is more than worth the effort.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I feel like far more people reference Accelerate than have actually read Accelerate. Molz wrote a fantastic post all around chapter 3 &#8211; the chapter on culture. <a href=\"https:\/\/mollysheets.com\/2024\/03\/17\/how-culture-impacts-efficiency-applying-accelerate-to-game-studio-culture\/\">How Culture Impacts Efficiency: Applying \u201cAccelerate\u201d to Game Studio Culture<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ve become a big fan of the writing of Hazel Weakly &#8211; I especially liked this post on <a href=\"https:\/\/hazelweakly.me\/blog\/redefining-observability\/\">Redefining Observability<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One of articles more leaders should read is this on on <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2024\/03\/fighting-loneliness-on-remote-teams\">Fighting Loneliness with Remote Teams<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally, I have a lot of stories about how music and software development relate &#8211; and I believe that other than the details of tech, there are a lot of patterns in all knowledge work &#8211; so I LOVED this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/zenfamily.dental\/csLearnDental.php\">Five things Software Engineers can learn from Medicine \/ Dentistry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Time for me to go take a power nap &#8211; see you all next week (or tomorrow if you read the other blog).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I journeyed into public last weekend&#8230;and caught a cold. 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