"give it a quick test and ship it out, our customers are better at finding bugs than we are" - lecture from the CEO of a company I used to work for who didn't want me to waste any time testing and didn't want to pay me to do testing. I left soon after that to find a place with a different culture, trying to change it was way too hard
Find a sport to play? For me it's soccer, cant play it with a hangover and my first games showed me how unfit I was so I spent more time getting fit, less time drinking which made me a better player and I got to make new friends with people I was playing with
Interesting that the 2 books referenced at the end are from 2008 and 2012 (I read them when I was learning more about testing) - nothing new since then?
1987 I started a new job at a small company producing book pagination software and I was introduced to BCPL and a PDP-11 and one of my responsibilities was to take the mag tape backups to the bank every Friday afternoon...
It's a great place to work, thanks for the shout-out
(ex-pat Brit who was tired of the 4 hour commute to London and moved to Michigan)
Sorry, no tips for you to follow MI startups
"Companies are excluding Colorado from their remote employment opportunities in order to avoid sharing the salary range of their open positions" - https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/about