Five for Friday – July 28, 2023

My last post contained one of the tricks I use when writing – how I use iteration when I’m writing. It’s one technique I use to make steady progress and avoid writers block. Although that post was about iteration in general, it reminded me that I have a few other tricks that I wanted to…

I’m happy that my last post generated some discussion. I’m not sure about the rest of the blogosphere, but for some reason I seem to get half or more of the comments privately instead of through the blog comment system. Something I heard from a few people was this comment (anonymity retained). Why don’t you…

Today I saw yet another info-byte on the perils of multi-tasking. I too, think that multitasking is rarely (if ever) as productive as multitaskers believe it is (note: my favorite study compares bong hits with multitasking…ymmv) – but we’ve all seen stuff like this over time. What’s missing from many of the studies and stories…

I shared an article on rotten automation on the testproject blog here – https://blog.testproject.io/2017/11/07/somethings-rotten-test-automation/ A was also part of of Engel Jones 12-minute podcast series. My interview (very little about testing) is here – https://twelveminuteconvos.com/alan-page/  

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I’m back after an interesting walk in the woods (more on that – probably – in my angryweasel.substack.com post tomorrow). In the meantime, here are a few things I found interesting recently. That’s all for this week – thanks for reading.