Month: April 2018

April 16, 2018

Greg Thomas

Come Together

Or Fall Apart. When you’re on a team, any team, in any timezone, remote or in the office, upstairs or downstairs, doing the same job or different ones, if you can’t bring them together, if you can’t come together… You’ll never be a team. You’ll just be a bunch of people, in the same place, doing some stuff and hoping that it somehow will come together. Pro Tip: It won’t. Yeah, that’s hard to hear, maybe even harder to admit if you’re the one lead the team? It’d be incredibly hard to stand up at your next team meeting and

April 16, 2018

Greg Thomas

Back to the Software We Go

It’s always there. This urge, this pull, this string – always pulling me back to write more code and new code. And it’s never on what I know, it’s always on what I don’t know, new platforms, new topologies, new codebases, new languages. It’s never easy, it’s always a process in having to learn something new. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

April 13, 2018

Greg Thomas

Helicopter Leaders

They do exist. The follow you around wherever you go, ready to jump into whatever problem you are working on. They ask to be cc:ed on every single email you send (or you feel the need to do it). They are there to catch you when you fall and tell you why you fell and how you should have done it their way. They don’t go on vacation because the “team always needs them”. It’s hard to grow as an individual and a Leader when you have a Helicopter Leader over you, monitoring your every move. It’s hard because even if

April 12, 2018

Greg Thomas

Engaging the Community?

What are you afraid of? That you aren’t good enough? You don’t know what you’re talking about? You won’t be respected? You won’t be heard? You’ll be ignored? Or maybe it’s that you’re afraid to everything you learned was wrong, and now you need to learn something new, go in a different direction and figure out what you should be doing. That’s why they call it a community – they are there to push you and make you better – not pat you on the back (a community will do this when they see you pushing yourself, but not for

April 11, 2018

Greg Thomas

How Many Courses do You Need?

Before enough is enough. Before you have finally learned everything about anything. Before you know enough to “start” creating. Before you know enough to take that leap and start something new? Now write down that number – whatever it is, 5, 11, 28, 103 – it’s all good. Put that number above your desk, in your phone, on the cover of your notebook, painted on your wall in big red letters. You cannot go above that number, that number is the number that defines when you’ll start building, creating, publishing, making and delivering. That’s your Magic Number.  

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