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# Five for Friday - April 17, 2020
- URL: https://www.kenst.com/five-for-friday-april-17-2020/
- Published: 2020-04-17T20:53:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-09T02:09:11.000Z
- Author: Chris Kenst
- Tags: Recaps, Stay Curious, Quality

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](https://hundredpushups.com/?ref=kenst.com). 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](https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a31818878/arnold-schwarzenegger-home-workout-plan/?ref=kenst.com). 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](http://abcmouse.com/?ref=kenst.com) for our 2.5 year old. Between this and the iOS app [Endless Learning Academy](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/endless-learning-academy/id1034523226?ref=kenst.com) 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](https://12dc947d-75a0-3f58-47b2-fdf7032a8f1a.filesusr.com/ugd/c47e45%5F04136ef5b5c34a5e9489a34fe0235f65.pdf?ref=kenst.com) 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)](https://a16z.com/2020/04/15/a16z-podcast-moving-to-remote-development-and-work/?ref=kenst.com). 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!