Month: April 2025

April 3, 2025

Greg Thomas

You Know the Drill

Or do you? If you don’t, then no, the answer is you don’t know the drill. If you do, then yes, you know the drill and it’s no longer a drill, it’s how you do things, how the team does, how everyone comes together, and how fun and work are had and accomplished at the same time. When you know the drill, you’re not thinking about the drill, you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing and you’re moving up to try something next. But you can only do that as long as you know the drill – so if

April 2, 2025

Greg Thomas

What Setback?

Not where you hoped you would be? Not at the job you think you should have? Didn’t get through the first interview round? Your certification exam took a slight detour? You can look at these as either setbacks or steps to growth and learning. If you yearn for nostalgia, screenshot them, put them in a folder, forget about them, and revisit them in 3 years, then ask yourself was it a setback or a step forward?

April 1, 2025

Greg Thomas

Embrace the Calamity

Everything can and will go wrong. Your plans will go sideways. The idea you had to build on a platform, that platform went bust. What you thought would work, will no longer work. The API interface you are building against will be deprecated in 3 months. You can either rant and rave about the situation you’re in, about everything going wrong, or you can embrace the calamity and chart a new path. Five years ago, many companies, organizations, and people charted new paths when calamity was all around them.

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