Articles for category: Drive

March 28, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Gap between Code and Tickets

There is a huge gap between what we do and what we track – and that is the gap between code and tickets. There are many great tools out there that can you help you manage one or the other, but the gap between them still exists and all comes down to one simple statement. I don’t want my work to be tracked. “I want to be creative” “I don’t want to be a factory” These are valid statements, I dislike the term “software factory” and have always thought of software as an artistic pursuit.  But at some point, you

March 26, 2023

Greg Thomas

Where AI will succeed?

I opened up Notion the other day and saw it had a new AI feature to it. So I typed in the name of a story I was going to write to see what it would come up with. It wasn’t half-bad, but it’s not what I was thinking about.  It was actually way off and completely generic.  I tried it again with a few more story titles and what came out was very generic as well – again it was okay. I look at AI right now and compare it to the one great kid in art class who

March 24, 2023

Greg Thomas

Focus on Task Priorities

To do all the work you need to do, you need to have a connected environment to a network that not only lets you work on that particular task, but it opens a dizzying array of other things you can be doing. Watching YouTube while you work. Incoming messages coming at you. Seeing twitter updates scroll in. Seeing newsfeeds update. Now more than ever it is a task in itself to get yourself to focus on what you need to do and just do that one singular thing.  The time it takes us to do tasks has invariably grown over

March 22, 2023

Greg Thomas

What is it with Spring?

Yesterday was winter and today is spring. So what’s the difference? Nothing, today could still be winter, and keep going for another 4 days until it was spring. It’s a date that seemed like a good idea at the time so we stick with it. So if you’re waiting for a date to start making changes, just know, they all don’t make sense, so what you’re actually waiting for is a manufactured date that has no binding to it.

March 21, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Leonard Effect

I used to work with this guy, we’ll call them Leonard (real person), many years ago. At the end of a project, Leonard had a horrific review, he thought he could skate by on past achievements and not have to put the work in. Turns out his manager thought otherwise and was let go. Leonard pleaded and pleaded and was brought back but with a reduced salary and responsibilities. Two things could have happened at this point; Leonard could have said no way, I’m out of here, I can’t believe you’re treating me like this and gone somewhere else. Leonard

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