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Complacency is a Pain to Clean Up
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Focus on One Thing
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Everything Takes Effort
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Default to Team Patterns
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Too Many Tabs
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The Easy Metric
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Your Best Work
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Back to the Terminal
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We will always have Regex
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Pick Your Path
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For the past few years, I’ve waged a war with mice at our cabin, essentially trying to keep them out of our crawlspace storage area. It’s not a perfect setup, but it’s necessary, and for a few years, I thought I was winning the war – they were staying away, never coming back. But this year, they all ganged up on me, and they launched a counteroffensive (or at least I like to imagine they all had a huddle and got together to come at me). And did they ever, laying waste to everything in our storage area (emphasis on …
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Focus on One Thing
Greg Thomas
Pick one thing, work on it. Then the next. Focus breeds success. Read one book. Draw one picture. Learn one riff. Release one app. Focus and then move onto next. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
2 days ago
Everything Takes Effort
Greg Thomas
That’s it. Everything. Everything takes effort. Learning. Prompting. Drawing. Designing. Leading. Managing. Writing. Cleaning. Refactoring. Everything, everything takes some required level of effort to come together and be something of usefulness. There is no “unefforted” thing that we want that doesn’t contain some level of value. It all takes effort, so roll up your sleeves and dive in. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
1 week ago
Pick Your Path
I just watched a quick synopsis of Microsoft Build this week. I was never big on conferences. I liked attending them with coworkers, hanging out in the evenings, talking about what we learned that day, and also seeing how much swag we could bring home. That was our goal – the swag, and how much per-diem we could save to go out at night. Conferences are a firehose that never stops. The whole time you’re there, it is go, go, go – it’s great, you leave with a bazillion ideas. But there is so much, and there is only so …
1 week ago
Speed Running Buddhism Misses the Point
Cue the commencement speeches for 2026, and this one from Ronnie Chieng. It’s a good watch; there is some NSFW language if you have your speakers on. My favourite comment – “Speed Running Buddhism Misses the Point” – everything is about the journey. It’s about the learning experience; it’s about the path you are on to improve. Great speech (and funny). Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
No One Likes to Run
Starting is easy, but midway through, something starts to hurt. Just when you think you’ve mastered a distance, you add on a few more, thinking it will be nothing and hurt even more. Figuring out your pace is hard; some days you are on fire, other days you’re way behind. To improve, you need to show up every day. It’s not only about running, mixing in biking and hills can help, but they aren’t always running, it’s something else. If you’re running for fun, that’s great, but most people have a goal in mind, and reaching that goal can be …