This month it’s a truly worldwide affair as Neil is joined by Nicola Lindgren, a New Zealander who’s based in Sweden, to share stories of her testing journey and her community content creation, including a newly-published book, “Starting Your Software Testing Career”.

We talk about how to reserve the time to participate in extra-curricular activities, and take a deep-dive into the process of creating a book from start to finish, including finding value for your audience, how contributors can help you to create more well-rounded content, getting your content reviewed, and how to promote effectively on social media.

On the music front, there are memories of Nicaraguan night-life, graduation parties, Korean dance routines and “songs for squats”!

Podcast Links:

Nicola’s blog

Nicola’s new YouTube channel

Leanpub: Starting Your Software Testing Career

Amazon: Starting Your Software Testing Career

House of Test

The Culture Trip: Why High School Celebrations Are So Big In Sweden 

YouTube: LifeLikeJosie - What Graduation Is Like In Sweden

Mojovation Consulting - the “germ of an idea” that Neil referred to!

Amazon Direct Publishing: Proof Copies

Google Docs to Markdown converter

Leanpub: Markua manual

Leanpub: How Can I Test This?

YouTube: Nicola Lindgren - The CV that Got Me My First Testing Role

Wiktionary claims that “nicheness” is a word

Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky - Make Time

Gary Keller - The One Thing

Testit 2022 (Malmö, 13 September)

SANAE 2022 (Bratislava, 28-29 September)

TestBash UK 2022 (Manchester, 22-23 September)

Nicola on Twitter: @NicolaLindgren

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