Five for Friday – December 14, 2018

I am going to take the rest of the year off from bullet points (and computers as much as I can) while I catch up on rest and other odds and ends. That said, here’s the final five for 2018.

  • A huge, HUGE shoutout to heytaco – they have a fun “reward” system for slack teams, and they gave us a sweet deal on tacos for oneofthethree.slack.com. Truly a class act.
  • I never thought about what made a company a “tech company” until I read this article.
  • I gave a workshop and a keynote at the Test Leadership Congress in NYC last spring, where Anna Royzmann organized and hosted. Apparently, she has had some medical problem in Turkey – a friend of hers has started a gofundme to help with her. I/ABTesting made a donation to her cause, and I hope a few readers do too.

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