Five Blogs – 25 January 2023

The (best) five blogs we can read today. Check them out.

Like it or not, email is still our greatest tool – and the source of some of our biggest threats
Written by: Danny Palmer

The 7 types of rest that every person needs
Written by: Saundra Dalton-Smith MD

How to get started using ChatGPT
Written by: Maria Diaz

Probably, Just, Maybe, and Perhaps
Written by: John Cutler

5 Key Moves from Quality Assurance to Quality Assistance
Written by: Antoine Craske

Extra:

How To Increase Your Active Listening By Decreasing Your Interruptions
Written by: Vernon Richards

Quote of the day:
“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.” -Deepak Chopra

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Five Blogs – 17 January 2020

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Work Is Work
Written by: Coda Hale

Don’t Volunteer for a Lobotomy
Written by: Randy Gage

Let’s Talk About Putting the “Customer” in Customer Experience
Written by: Annette Franz

Would Heu-risk it? Part 8: The Glutton
Written by: Lena Pejgan Wiberg

Do These Things Before Going to Bed and You’ll Wake up Energized for Tomorrow
Written by: Tim Denning

Quote of the day:
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” -Haruki Murakami

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Five Blogs – 9 August 2018

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What’s the Worst Thing You Could Do?
Written by: Johanna Rothman

How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part Two)
Written by: Michael Lynch

High Speed Internet Is Causing Widespread Sleep Deprivation, Study Finds
Written by: Daniel Oberhaus

How will Automation affect Jobs, Skills and Wages?
Written by: Som Dutta

Why Smart Leaders Derail: Avoiding Career Pitfalls
Written by: Glain Roberts-McCabe

Quote of the day:
“No matter how it look at first, it is always a people problem” -Jerry Weinberg

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Five Blogs – 23 March 2017

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Getting Stuff Done
Written by: Dave Westerveld

Moving Past the Scaling Myth
Written by: Michael Feathers

Bug Advocacy: How to Effectively Bring Attention to Software Defects
Written by: Jim Peers

10 Surprising Ways You Can Sleep a Lot Better
Written by: Jeff Haden

A User Story Checklist
Written by: Charles Bradley

Quote of the day:
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear” -Ram Dass

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Five Blogs – 15 February 2017

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The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say
Written by: Carl Zimmer

Bacon, Tom Brokaw and Me: This is How We Change the World
Written by: Scott Savage

Beyond Agile Operations: How To Achieve The Holy Grail Of Strategic Agility
Written by: Steve Denning

The Problem with Software Measurement and Metrics
Written by: Lee Copeland

Pairing exploratory and unit testing
Written by: Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Quote of the day:
“The past is never where you think you left it” -Katherine Anne Porter

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Five Blogs – 19 February 2016

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The Rise Of The Freelancer Economy
Written by: Brian Rashid

Narrow Your Focus to Reach the Right People With Your Words
Written by: Simon Knight

There’s a Proven Link Between Effective Leadership and Getting Enough Sleep
Written by: Nick van Dam and Els van der Helm

Mapping Biases to Testing: the Anchoring Effect
Written by: Maaike Brinkhof

Underrated (Software Testing) Skills
Written by: Jason B. Ogayon

Quote of the day:
“Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence” -Desmond Tutu

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Five Blogs – 9 September 2015

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Modern Prioritization
Written by: Francisco Sáez

4 Scientifically Proven Methods To Increase Your Productivity
Written by David Hassell

10 Ways to Get More Productive Sleep
Written by: Molly Reynolds

Creating A Consciously Meaningful Workplace
Written by: Rosie Sherry

You have waked me too soon…
Written by: The Economist

Quote of the day:
“There is no failure except in no longer trying” -Elbert Hubbard

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Five Blogs – 6 July 2015

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The Comprehensive Guide to Sleep Hacking
Written by: Cody McLain

We Don’t Need More Designers Who Can Code
Written by: Jesse Weaver

Cynefin dynamics
Written by: Dave Snowden

Are You a Total Zero?
Written by: Simon Knight

On Scripting
Written by: Michael Bolton

Quote of the day:
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” -Maya Angelou

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Five Blogs – 22 April 2015

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Product risk, are we talking the talk or walking the walk.
Written by: Gitte Ottosen

DEV and Testing Deliverables
Written by: Jyothi Rangaiah

Two Types of Power
Written by: Matt Heusser

When You Have to Coach Remotely
Written by: Mark Mortensen

Broken sleep
Written by: Karen Emslie

Quote of the day:
“The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone” -Robin Williams

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Five Blogs – 18 March 2015

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Collaboration Does Not Require Consensus: Team Decision-Making is Situational
Written by: Jesse Lyn Stoner

How to Create Professional Presentations
Written by: Kenna Griffin

11 Ways to Keep Lack of Sleep From Killing You (Because it Is)
Written by: Jeff Haden

But We’re Different
Written by: Jason Little

Two Heads are Better than One
Written by: Jim Coplien

Quote of the day:
“Shallow men believe in luck; strong men believe in cause and effect” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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