Month: February 2016

February 29, 2016

Greg Thomas

Welcome to the Presentation

Big or small – it’s always been a goal of mine to speak at a developer conference on a topic of pretty much anything where the focus is solely on getting the information out there.  Like anything in life you cannot go straight to uber Architect, you need to put in the time and hustle to make it happen.  Outside of your place of employment, no one is going to hand it to you, you need to go get it. This morning I did that. This isn’t the first presentation I’ve done, but I’d easily say the first one where

February 26, 2016

Greg Thomas

I don’t Jog, I Run

I’m not some expert runner/jogger who has run a gazillion ironman and triathlons, but I have noticed something over the years whether it is on the treadmill or on the street. I don’t build up, I don’t start slow, I don’t wait for the first incline – I just run.  When it comes to the hills, I run even harder. And I’m not big on doing it in groups either, I’ll do it now and again, go out with the family, but really when I want to run, to push myself for myself, I’ll run solo, even through the rain. I’m

February 25, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Impatience of Ordering Food

Last week, I was sitting in a local coffee shop, doing some work before a meeting watching people order their breakfasts. I saw this one person sit down with his order, look at it, know it was wrong and just start to erupt.  He ate it, but he was not happy about it.  Then I started to look at the line-ups as people were becoming more and more frustrated with how long it was taking to place their orders. Some were getting angry, some were checking their watch – their impatience was growing.  Think about when you go to a

February 24, 2016

Greg Thomas

How to Scale One

You know the person on your team that knocks it out of the park – all day, every day – they show up, deliver and leave you sitting at your screen thinking – “Wow, amazing, just wow”. And you always ask yourself that one question – “How do I clone this person?”  or in more realistic terms – “How do I scale past one?”  And maybe this is you, running the solo company, making a go of it, you’re killing it in the market, but also killing yourself in the process.   And at some point you realize – I can

February 23, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Freelancer’s Dilemma

Who is the freelancer? What is the freelancer? By definition – someone that works for different companies at different times rather than being permanently employed by one company. They have no benefits, no job security, no full-time place of employment, no paid for training, vacation is when they can get it and they pay for their own travel.  And yes, with multiple clients comes multiple conflicting schedules. That’s what you hear about the most, what is often not spoken about is how they have the freedom to work on a variety of different projects on a perhaps a variety of different technologies

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