Month: April 2019

April 23, 2019

Greg Thomas

So you’re Losing your Job

It’s not the greatest thing to probably happen to you. In the short-term it is going to feel like an act of betrayal perpetrated by everyone around you as you diligently put all your time into making them and their projects a success. This is the new economic landscape that we are living in where one day things were going great and tomorrow they are not. There is no happy answer to be given to make you feel better, the only actions that come next that matter are from you. Are you going to rail against an unfair, unjust system

April 22, 2019

Greg Thomas

Avoiding Perk Seduction

Perks are a big thing in trying to attract top talent to a team. Coding in Bean Bag chairs. $20,000 coffee machines. Bring your dog into work. On-Site Dry cleaning. Free fitness memberships. Free Internet. Nothing wrong with these perks if they are enhancing what is already there and of value to you taking the opportunity in the first place. Challenging Projects. Flexible solution architecture. Ability to take the initiative and promote your ideas. Free self-learning options. Great team atmosphere. If the latter came with paid internet, no dry cleaning, my dog staying at home, coffee from a packet and

April 19, 2019

Greg Thomas

Excuses to Getting Started

There are lots of tools and resources for you to get started on the next project you’re working on for next to nothing. 750 Words – to get better at writing every day. Wordprhttps://Wordpress ess – to post your writing to One Drawing a Day – to encourage you to draw every day 7 Minute Fitness – to workout every day Dropbox – to store all your work to Zoom – to conference with any client, any day Google Docs – to write in docs and spreadsheets CodeAcademy – to learn JavaScript Not much in the way of excuses, when

April 17, 2019

Greg Thomas

Be Bad at Something

Be really bad at it. Be so bad that whatever it is you do you think to yourself – “Wow this is garbage”. Don’t worry about getting better and what level you need to achieve, where you need to be next or who you need to be like. And try again. You probably still won’t be great, but maybe you’re a little better than garbage, maybe there is a glimmer of something you did well and can focus on it and do it again. Rinse, Repeat and record what you are doing to get better, to improve yourself, to take

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