January 20, 2023

Greg Thomas

Measure Your Mark

Pick a day, any day. Move forward from it. Now when you cycle back to that day (or moment or month or whatever) identify how much you have grown, what you have accomplished, and where you are. Now you have measured your mark (by whatever metrics make sense). Now rinse, repeat and move forward.

January 19, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Fallacy of Process for One

A process is meant for a group of people to start doing something a particular way. When a group of people follows the same thing, the group becomes more efficient. Process gets a bad rap because the image of a hammer is immediately crystalized in our minds. If everyone logs bugs in a different way that becomes hard to track, eventually the way that works for the team becomes the template, and the steps become the workflow that becomes the process. A good process helps teams get past the stuff that is not their job and lets them focus on

January 18, 2023

Greg Thomas

Confidence in your Role

If you’re starting a new role and unsure of it, the best thing to do is ask what you should be doing. If you’re given a list of 15 things you should be doing now, this instance, this moment realizes that can’t happen – so rank them and pick the top 5. Of those Top 5 identify what you need to do be good at them, how much do you need to put into them, what do you need from others, are there extra resources you’ll require – keep asking yourself questions until you’ve feel like you’ve asked all you

January 17, 2023

Greg Thomas

Back to the Grind

It’s been a few weeks but you have already been back to it – the grind. The day in, the day out – moving things along, perhaps pushing a rock up a new hill for a new purpose. But that’s what you are doing. That’s what you are focused on. Not everyone wants to go back to the grind and they will try to push you off. But if you keep going, that’s when you know you’re on the right path.

January 15, 2023

Greg Thomas

What’s in a Network?

Networks connect. They ensure what’s needed gets from Point A to Point B. It might not come through in one large packet, because that is not always feasible, instead, it could be a grouping of multiple packets where Point B then has the harder job of reassembling everything broken out by Point A to make sure it could all gets there, all be delivered, but would require some extra work to put it all back together and see the big picture. Networks are complex and with all these myriad of packets floating around, stuff gets lost, and corrupted so when