Five for Friday – July 16, 2021

Not sure if it’s possible to find anything more interesting than Pence’s fly this week, but I tried. Mike Cohn wrote (yet another) article I enjoyed – this week’s topic asks, Are We Really Bat at Estimating? This twitter thread had some unsurprising thoughts (with some research) on the future of remote work. It’s now…

For some reason, I have a lot of friends from the UK (could be soccer, could be Microsoft – I don’t know). I hang around them enough to know not to look down when someone says “Pants”, and that “sixes and sevens” have nothing to do with math. Learning the subtleties took time, and I…

Someone told me this week they read my blog. That’s cool, and I hope they find it valuable, but this is less of a blog, and more of a place for me to dump some things that I think are interesting or worth reading. Whatever the reason you’re here, thanks for dropping by. Here’s the…

I’m two months into my 18th year at Microsoft, and I still really enjoy it – most of the time at least. My job is great, I work on amazing technology, and with people smarter than you can imagine. But, for two months or so every year, the dreaded MS review monster comes out from…

This is the last FfF for 2021 – I’m going to take a few weeks with as little computer time as possible. I’ll be playing Halo Infinite and Fallout 4, reading some of my kindle backlog, and keeping up with new episodes of Hawkeye, The Expanse, and Wheel of Time. In the meantime – here…

This post is completely inspired by Trish Khoo’s post on Preparing for Your Presentation. I was going to add a comment, but it got too long, so it’s becoming a blog post. Go ahead and read that first – it covers way more than I’m covering here, and it’s a well written article. Trish suggests…