Five for Friday – March 1, 2024

It’s Friday (again). Here are a few links I think you’ll like.

  • A great post from Janet Gregory this week on Quality Coaches.
  • Yesterday was that stupid day that happens every four years when stuff breaks that shouldn’t. Tech can’t handle dates.
  • So. Many. Great. Points in this article by Johanna Rothman on the continued quest for silver bullets.
  • Probably just a head-nodder for most of the FfF readers, but I liked the summary of these theam Productivity Hacks – especially the Ditch The Useless Meetings tip.
  • Last weekend I watched All the Light We Cannot See on Netflix. You can look at it as a four-part miniseries, or as I did, as a single four-hour movie. I thought it was fantastic.
    Yes, I know there’s a book too, and that the book was probably better (they always are), but I highly recommend this one.

And that’s all. Happy March – see you in a week.

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