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A wonderful episode!
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Brilliant, thank you so much!
Books - who wants one? image
Could we ask for Lessons Learned in Software Testing and/or Quality by Design? Thank you!
Hot take: Don't let AI take notes for you image
Excellent insight! The best way for me to retain anything has always been to write it out (preferably by hand). I can look back at my own notes from years ago and understand the structure, abbreviations, leaps of logic, ... , because it's always still *me* who wrote them. I could never learn well from borrowed notes, and AI summaries only magnify that problem. With a (trustworthy) classmate, I could at least rely on them understanding the material. With AI, I have no such guarantees. (Now, disclaimer: I am someone who loves writing, both the act of turning words into sentences into stories and the physical act of putting pen to paper, so the whole 'writing things for you' aspect of AI is utterly wasted on me.)
Testing meets fun: How we accidentally created the best testing icebreaker using sticky notes and a whiteboard image
Don't like my messy desk? Don't look at it 🫣 image
I'm glad me and my sticky notes were of help to you! It used to bother me, but I've learned that having a clean desk and a functional work environment are mutually exclusive for me, so I've gone all in on the functional work environment (and life environment--I keep all my meds in plain sight because I will straight up forget to take them otherwise).
My biggest issue is, unfortunately, time. Do you have any advice on finding the time to learn when all the work still... image
Thank you for answering my question! That sounds like an excellent way to get some time blocked off; I'm going through my calendar right now to find a good timeslot.
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Heleen Van Grootven
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After a decade in communications, I switched to testing—turns out that I really like figuring out how things work and how they fit together. Always open to learning more and meeting new people!

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