Articles for category: Drive

January 4, 2022

Greg Thomas

Out of Memory Exception in Real Life

I think we are all feeling like this these days – taxed, weighted down – trying to do our best, not sure what to start on next because who knows what we are going to have to be working through next. If you’ve never had an Out of Memory exception, it occurs when your code has taken up all the memory on a server and there is nothing left to give back.  I haven’t had this happen in the cloud world but on-premise, I’ve seen it lots. The best thing about being out of memory is you can stop, think

December 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

What’s Wrong with our Meetings?

Think back to the last time you had a great meeting, one that truly blew your mind and left you feeling satisfied. Chances are it wasn’t in the last few months. Greater chances are that it was even longer than that. If you knew your meetings for the next week and the week after we’re going to be exactly the same, leave you feeling exactly the same way – would you still attend them? Or would you be willing to take the time to figure out how to make them better? The questions aren’t complicated – it simply boils down

December 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your List Just Got Longer

Because now you have all this other stuff to deal with that two days ago you didn’t have to do. Now things need putting together, patching and updating. Now your time is being pulled in different directions as everyone wants their piece delivered first but you are only one person. And of course, you have your own list of goods you want to work on. So the question is – where do you start? You could start with the riskiest or go to the quick wins to make the list shorter?  You could go with the stuff that costs the

December 23, 2021

Greg Thomas

My Learning Focus

Not big on broadcasting what I’m focusing on but sometimes good to write it down to remind myself why I’m doing it. Areas where I want to focus on in the coming months; Typescript and its application to projects I’m working on AWS/GCP  – always good to see how the other side of the world lives (or in this case the majority of it) Meetings – why do they continue to be broken after the last two years when it’s all we have done. Delivery of Leadership Programs – how to get the message out there My core four I

December 21, 2021

Greg Thomas

Why Attend a Meeting?

If I’m at a meeting and I’m not doing any of the following; Presenting Answering questions or contributing to the conversation Typing questions into the chat Keeping myself off of video Then I ask myself why am I here?  Maybe it’s an odd one where nothing was directed my way or maybe, I just don’t need to be there? The common thread against all four of those bullet points is engagement, interaction, and intent.  If I am not needed, that is a function of the meeting, if I am choosing not to be to be a part of the meeting