Month: April 2025

April 20, 2025

Greg Thomas

Fill the Feeder

When the feeder gets empty, there is nothing to eat. You can try to time the filling with the feeder with when it gets to its near empty point, maintaining that perfect balance of “full but not full enough”. Or you can always fill the feeder with new ideas, new code, new words, new suggestions, new work, etc. When the feeder is full, you don’t have to worry about it getting empty.  You don’t have to worry about it running out, because there will always be something there. And most importantly, you don’t have to worry about it running out.

April 19, 2025

Greg Thomas

Re-establishing Routine

Routines get broken. Work. Vacation. School. Unexpected events. It happens, the routine breaks, and now it lies on the floor laughing at you. You have a choice, leave it there, laughing, or pick it up and make it work once more – because it did before.

April 18, 2025

Greg Thomas

But who Owns it?

A random message goes out on Teams – “Who can help me with this?” Crickets. No one can. Or everyone can. But no one knows who owns it, so no one knows whether they should work on it. So no one puts their hand up. The subject line of the follow-up meeting is “Do I own this?” If the answer is yes, great, if the answer is no, great. But now we all know.

April 18, 2025

Greg Thomas

Speaking Over Each Other

I think one of the downfalls of remote work is that we don’t always feel like we are being heard enough. The “Hand Raise” icons aren’t enough. And our immediate response is then to speak over each other, continually over and over again. As a result, the usefulness of our meetings declines because there is no more direction toward solving an issue, we only want to hear ourselves being heard. The question then becomes how to do we ensure that everyone will always be heard and give them the proper opportunity to speak. You create a goal, you create an

April 17, 2025

Greg Thomas

Explain your Policies

A few months ago, I made a reservation (I was incredibly proud because I generally don’t do this and prefer to fly in and hope for the best). But I made the reservation and had hoped to show up, be seated, and enjoy my meal. As it turns out, the reservation policy had changed and I had not reserved a spot but instead had reserved to have my wait time cut in half from 45 minutes to 25 minutes (not quite half but that’s okay). Around 27 minutes we got our table (I timed it only because I had 25

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