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Coping hard.

Coping hard.

Something happened last week that made me realize something funny about myself: I am coping hard in one aspect of life. I always pretend I don’t care about things. I make fun of things. I ridicule things. But that’s a coping mechanism because honestly, I care a lot.

The many personalities of a software tester

I just had a weird insight that I want to share with you. Before I can share it, I must first explain the model that the insight was about. Have you ever heard of the Interpersonal Circumplex? It is a model to assess interpersonal behaviour, traits and motives of people.

Learning on the Job

I carve out time every day to learn new things while I’m at work. For me, learning can happen in many different ways: I might pair up with someone to work together, I might read a bit in a book about API testing, I might follow a tutorial on