Month: June 2018

June 20, 2018

Greg Thomas

Finding Time For Your Passions

Passions can turn into hobbies that can turn into ventures that can turn into something that you never dreamed could ever happen when it was a small little passion. Finding time for your passion, when it’s new, untrustworthy, hard to figure out and fraught with so many unknowns can be even trickier. So here’s the secret to making time for your passion. Use your latest handheld device or old-school calendar. And schedule the time. Don’t worry about what you accomplish, just schedule the time to put time into your passion. Start off small with 30 minutes a day and hit

June 19, 2018

Greg Thomas

Customers Don’t Always Know What They Want

And if they don’t know what they want, then how can they be right? This is a dangerous assumption to make that your customers “know” what they want. When you start to look for a new car, do you know everything and anything about the new features available to you in the current models? And if you don’t know everything, how can you be “automatically” right in what you are asking for? And conversely, because the customer isn’t sure of what they want because they don’t know what that “it” is, this is not an excuse for you to run

June 18, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Tractor vs Cadillac Delivery Trap

If you’re a developer, you’ve heard about the argument of delivering the Tractor vs the Cadillac. If not, here it is in condensed form. Tractor – rock solid, gets you from A to B with little fanfare, doesn’t look great, does the job, never falls over, stable as a rock. Cadillac – it looks really pretty, it’ll give you the smoothest ride from A to B (when it works), it has all the bells and whistles (but doesn’t always work). So the question becomes when debating the delivery of a new feature is whether you want it to be solid

June 15, 2018

Greg Thomas

Practice, Practice, Practice

At the time of this post, I have written over 750+ blog entries, another 40 – 50 articles on other sites (Medium, LinkedIn, others) and am still toiling away on endeavors elsewhere. But it’s not enough. I’m not there yet. I’m in that valley of Craptivity, not yet out, still deep, still taking that swing for the fences every day. Just like everyone else who shows up to put in the time, chip away at the beast and make something happen. Don’t stop practicing.  

June 14, 2018

Greg Thomas

A follow-up on the Gatekeeper

A quick follow-up to last week’s post on being Getting Past the Gatekeeper. If you ARE the Gatekeeper, it’s not a free ride for you either. In front of you, there is this candidate which probably can do a number of technical things you can’t do (or might even care to do). And that’s okay (you’re not the developer). But on top of identifying who they are and whether they are a good fit for your company, it’s on you to make sure that their interest never wanes and they are excited to join your little corner of the universe (yes,

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