April 30, 2021

Greg Thomas

Wired Up

When in doubt, wire it up. I rarely use a bluetooth headset for an important call. For the price, the reliability isn’t always there. Sure it looks great walking around your kitchen with your headset on, making lunch while on a call, but what are you focusing more on at that moment in time? Your lunch or the meeting? You don’t need the fanciest mic and headphones, you need one that is consistent, reliable, durable and will be there when you need it. Boil it down to what you need and not what you are going to have to switch

April 29, 2021

Greg Thomas

But that Hill…

That next hill is always harder than the last one. Even if it is the same size, you’re already tired from the one you just finished climbing so it looks bigger, badder, like it’s going to hurt even more if you try. Or perhaps it is bigger, substantially bigger than what you are used to and/or have experience in the past. Whichever it is, there is a Hill and it is blocking your path, it could be made up of physical things – code, writing, work, whatever – or the less tangible, harder to measure – goals, people, success. Whatever

April 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

Some thoughts on the Impostor

I wrote this post on the Impostor Syndrome a while back and was trying about my thoughts on being an Impostor in general and helped me get out of it. When I look back, the moment I stopped thinking about it, was the moment I stopped thinking about it, or rather didn’t have the time to think about it and all I could do was work. Whatever happened from there was outside of my control and a the very least I would learn more to take to the next opportunity. In short, I assumed the following stance; We only consider

April 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Mistakes You Make

Everyone is their own worst critic. I can pick out mistakes I made on a project, team or code a mile away. Heck I’m looking at flooring I laid down and there might as well be bright red ink painted around all the mistakes I made in what I installed. But when other people look at the finished product, they don’t see them. They probably don’t see them until you point them out. And even, they are in the tiniest of corners that they make little to no sense as to why you are worrying about them. These are the

Lead By Effort

Sometimes you will get it right, other times you will get it wrong. In both cases, people will probably be watching, especially if you’re leading the team. Your example that you are trying to lead by will sometimes fall flat on your face, such is life, you try to do the best for your team, for your project and it doesn’t work out. When these situations crop up, it’s easy to say – “well that was dumb, I’m going to go back to telling people what to do, because when I try to show them, I mess it up.” I