Month: May 2026

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Who Generated this Code?

Is that the question we will be asked going forward? What tool did we use to generate code? If we answer that we wrote it ourselves, will we be revered as an elder who once used the magical keyboard of Orbos to decipher the code of Phobos? I don’t think any of that exists. This was a question that mattered 4 – 5 years ago when something looked off, and you wondered how something was being built. Does it matter now, though? Is it more a question of “How was this code generated?” that we will be asked going forward?

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

What Meetings Do I need to be In?

You only ever need to be in the meetings that you actively contribute to. If you are not contributing to the meeting, you do not need to be there. If the reason you are there is so people can do their job, then you are using your meetings to solve a very different problem that cannot be solved by you being in a meeting. Take a run of your calendar and eliminate everything you don’t contribute to. If you’re missed, they will reach out; chances are, you’ll get some time back in your day.

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Strategy Session

Daily meetings are tactics – what are we doing today, what did we do yesterday, where am I stuck? Everyone on the project attends and has their say. The Strategy session happens once a week. It’s not for everyone; it’s for the leadership, and it asks a different set of questions Are we moving in the right direction? Are we tracking towards our goal? What is holding the team back? How do we help? Strategy sessions need all the leadership there to make decisions and determine next steps for the week that will filter down to daily meetings. When done

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Ecosystems Aren’t Built

Ecosystems evolve; they aren’t built. The frog, the lake, the bugs, the fish – they didn’t just get together one day and decide to jive and make a system. They evolved into it, one begat the other, something was enticing that spurned interest. Over time, it grew and evolved. Ecosystems don’t evolve overnight either; it takes time. As much as we don’t want it to take time, it does, it always will, there is no way around it. That’s the beauty of an ecosystem, always evolving, always growing, no start, no end – it just happens over time.  

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Now is the Time to Learn

There has never been a more important time to always be learning. I don’t know if there ever will (maybe when we get transporters). Each day, come out with something new – it doesn’t have to generate mass revenue and hockey stick growth in a day. It might not even pay off today. But in the next month, three months, or six, it will pay off. Now is the time to learn, schedule it, make it part of your daily cadence.

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