Articles for category: Delivery

May 8, 2017

Greg Thomas

It’s not going to get Easier

And will you keep going? If you know today – that it is not going to get easier for the next few weeks, months or years – will you keep going. Not maybe it will get easier, but definitively know that it will not get easier. Will you keep going? Will you keep waking up every day to make it happen? Will you keep pushing until you have nothing left to give? Will you still invest in failure knowing one day it will fuel your success? Than you are more ready than most and need to keep going to make this happen.

May 1, 2017

Greg Thomas

Failure To Notice

You are going to screw up, something is going to go wrong, what you are trying to accomplish will not work. You will fail. But worse than your failure, will be your inability to see that you have failed, to take the opportunity to learn from it and make yourself better next time. Celebrating failure is great, it signifies effort, endurance and commitment to keep trying. Not learning from failure ensures that you will inevitably fail once again, in the same fashion, over and over again. Take the time to do more than celebrate your failure, take the time to

April 27, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Anatomy of a Good Quote

It motivates you. It reminds you what you should be doing. It makes you smile. It provides a connection between you and everyone else looking at it. Or perhaps it does nothing at all and you simply keep scrolling on by on your feed du jour. Maybe you are sick and tired of quotes and all you want to do is turn them off, never to see them again. But if something so small has the power to embolden, push, strengthen, empower and connect with you on such a profound level, in the span of 10 seconds perhaps the problem isn’t

April 20, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Primary Pain Point

You can’t deploy to Production because you didn’t fill out these forms. You can’t use this library because it goes against our standards. You can’t change that code because we don’t know what impact it will have. Some sample issues you probably hit as a developer that reveal themselves to be the problem. But they aren’t the problem, they are the symptoms. And you won’t always recognize them as the symptoms and not the primary pain point until you’ve gone through the fire a few times, taken a step back thereafter and looked at what the real problem was from

April 17, 2017

Greg Thomas

Breaking the Cycle

Things are going rough, not getting better and you’re not sure where the end in sight is. You don’t feel driven, your motivation is in the tank, you wake-up and the first thing you do is grimace at what the day has to offer. You’re waiting for someone to realize what level of despair you’re in and charge forward to help you and pull you out of it. Only problem is you’re too good at hiding it, I mean we’re talking Ninja-mode stealth tactics where no one can see that things aren’t going well. You’re on your own and you

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