Five for Friday - April 17, 2020
Welcome to Friday, here are five points worth sharing. A few of these are “work” related but not all. Here is to helping find balance between working from home, home time and personal time:
- I’m finishing my second week of One Hundred Push ups. It’s hard but fun and takes less than 10 minutes per day. I’ve hit a few walls (because I’m out of shape) but the next workout (I do 3x a week) I usually break down the wall and continue on.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger has been busy on social media helping people focus on what they can control. Then he shared his old no gym / home workout routine using just bodyweight. It’s kind of legit. Men’s Health has it. I’ll try it after I can do 100 push ups!
- For those parents who are looking for ways to plan their children’s education while being remote we just signed up for ABCmouse.com for our 2.5 year old. Between this and the iOS app Endless Learning Academy I think it’s going well.
- We’ve actively been trying to experiment with learning plans to keep the kid developing. He doesn’t go to preschool yet but then again it seems like no kids currently do.
- Tea-Time with Testers magazine has a new issue after over 2 years on hiatus. Included was an article that struck home with me called How To Read A Difficult Book by Klára Jánová and James Bach. I also have tried reading An Introduction To General Systems thinking several times and have not gotten what I wanted from it. Perhaps I need to try what Klára did.
- There are some good bits of advice in the a16z podcast: Moving to Remote Development (and work). One is about the kinds of bad behaviors that get emphasized when moving to remote work (especially for managers). Another is a discussion around communication, using video, how to be expressive and generally send the right signals.
And a friendly reminder that with Amazon delivering slower than normal for non-essential things, eBay sellers are shipping faster than ever!