Month: March 2021

March 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Change in Virtual Interviews

Interviews are changing, they have changed. The remote interview is no longer the outlier, it’s now the standard. Over the phone interviews are being replaced by video interviews in your own living room with your family working in the background. Sure you might still be getting those 4 – 7 hour take home coding interviews (another story in of itself) but for the most part you are not going in to have interviews in person. What does this mean for you? Is that committee of 5 people all going to sign in at once to stare down this one person?

March 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

Replicating the Office Experience

You can’t replicate what you did before in the office. Running into people in the hallway. Chatting in the lunchroom. Picking up someone who is stuck on a bug by buying them a coffee. Having a random, yet project altering conversation about whatever it is you are working on that started off with a conversation about what font we are using. All those things are not going to happen the way they used to. They can still happen, but we need to find the different ways, the new ways to make them work. We’re redrawing our neural pathways daily to

March 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Jumping In

When starting a new book series, or a new game – do you go through all the myriad of titles and expansions that came before it so you can “understand” what is happening now? To play a Call of Duty or Fortnite game, did you need to play every other game before it so you can know everything there is before starting? No, one it would be costly, two it would probably be a bit boring (let’s be honest), as you force yourself through all these old games and consoles. Then why do this with a new project? The beauty

March 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

Time to Turf the Green Icon

If you’re still sitting down at your desk and checking to see who is “Green” and ready to go. You’re missing the point. I wrote about this early in the Pandemic when everyone went remote – Forget the Green Icon – because immediately I saw people staring down that icon and using it as the primary barometer to see whether their teams were contributing. The truth behind those icons, they are aggregates or estimates on what is happening on those devices. There are APIs and SDKs that let you program what state you want to be in and you as

March 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Good Enough?

I heard this line in a recent promotion for a new show on HBO, I’m paraphrasing here but it went something like this… There are Expectations for me to be something that I’m not good enough to be. When we question what we are working on or what we are doing, how often do we feel that way? Is that the root of being considered an Impostor or not “good enough” to do this work at hand? Is this what roils the confusion and frustration within us? I don’t know, all I know is this quote has me thinking about

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