Articles for category: Delivery

February 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

The “Extra” Remote Work

We know we’re all doing it. We check our email another few times. We put the polish on that last piece of code, work, idea so we can “jump” in tomorrow. We try to replicate our old routines in the remote world but they don’t quite fit so then we try and figure them out a little more. When it’s just you that’s remote, the extra isn’t as much as it normally is, but when everyone is remote, the extra grows, it grows because we’re all in the same boat and we’re all trying to figure it out. Put the

January 31, 2021

Greg Thomas

It’s Cold Out

I think it was Grade 10 or 11 and I was reading a book by Farley Mowat – perhaps Never Cry Wolf? To be honest, I can’t remember. But what I do remember is this one line that he wrote in it that went something like this (paraphrasing) – “When it’s cold outside, it’s the only time we can feel alive.” It’s cold outside. I can vouch for this and it’s a great feeling.

January 30, 2021

Greg Thomas

When it Comes Together

The Master Plan. The weeks of bug fixing. The final project push. Taking ownership of your work. Learning a new language. Creating a new learning hack. Building a new program. Whatever it is you are doing, the best moment, is when it clicks, when it comes together. It doesn’t mean you are done, it simply means that it’s possible, that their is light and now the heavy work can start. That’s the go ahead that we’re all looking for, when can the heavy work begin.

January 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Starting a New Book

No matter how interesting the subject or how much I want to dive into it. Every time I start a new book the process is still the same – skip to the end and see how long it is. Even if it’s one I’m dying to read, the onset of reading a book is always a bit daunting to me – as though I’ll never get there, never make it – so why bother. This has actually prevented me from reading in the past to the point that I would have books pile up on my desk. I didn’t know

January 24, 2021

Greg Thomas

Unfinished Projects

If your unfinished projects are adding up there are generally two approaches to solving them. One – Close them off so you don’t see them anymore. Two – Stop starting new projects until you finish the old ones. Both options involve some work in look at the old projects. But you haven’t been working on them at all, so that is why they are “old” projects in the first place, going back to them will just remind you of what they are and that you didn’t finish them. The third option, is to accept them for what they are, ideas

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