Month: July 2021

July 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

No Questions

When I give a presentation, a demo, a walkthrough, anything. If there are no questions, I get squared. Really, really squared. Because if there are no questions it means any of the following; I completely missed the mark and delivered the wrong content. The people in attendance do not care about what I am presenting or the content I am putting forth. No one understands what I have just said. They are confused. None of these are good responses. If you are assuming people are happy and satisfied with what you have just delivered ask yourself one question – when

July 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

Taking Action

Everyone knows what the problem is, everyone can see it. It’s the proverbial train coming at you that everyone can see and your entire team is deer stuck in the headlights. You know that feeling that is growing, deep in your gut. You can feel it. I know you can. If you don’t do something, the train will hit and splatter everywhere (gross but you get the picture). At this moment of time, they are waiting for you. Take the action, lead them away from the train.

July 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

You’re Not Ready

Good. Now that you know it, let other people know. Go to any developer site and you’ll find posts upon posts about battling Impostor Syndrome – yup it’s a thing. The biggest reason that Impostor Syndrome has become such a huge thing is that there are environments that incubate this feeling of inadequacy and not being sure of what you can do to the point that it belittles your confidence. Yes we are all too hard on ourselves sometimes (many) but think back to your first part-time job – did you feel like an impostor working as a cashier? flipping

July 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

Nobody Cares About the Process

Yes, having a process is good, it’s needed It’s what is going to make you a success and enable you to build a repeatable system that you can accrue economies of scale from. At the end of the day, that is the heart of a process, that is the reason we implement it – to get better. A process is the equivalent of a well-run practice designed to get you to learn a particular technique over and over again and make you get better at it. But you can’t hide behind it. You can’t hide behind the process when things

July 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Remote Chicken Coops

I wasn’t able to make a recent episode of Remotely Prepared and left things to Colin Harding to run with. Instead he walked with it (bad joke, watch the episode). Seriously though, if you are looking for an episode to relax to and feel instant calm – listen to this episode. https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/walk-with-me Plus: Chickens.

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