Articles for category: Drive

April 29, 2021

Greg Thomas

But that Hill…

That next hill is always harder than the last one. Even if it is the same size, you’re already tired from the one you just finished climbing so it looks bigger, badder, like it’s going to hurt even more if you try. Or perhaps it is bigger, substantially bigger than what you are used to and/or have experience in the past. Whichever it is, there is a Hill and it is blocking your path, it could be made up of physical things – code, writing, work, whatever – or the less tangible, harder to measure – goals, people, success. Whatever

April 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

Some thoughts on the Impostor

I wrote this post on the Impostor Syndrome a while back and was trying about my thoughts on being an Impostor in general and helped me get out of it. When I look back, the moment I stopped thinking about it, was the moment I stopped thinking about it, or rather didn’t have the time to think about it and all I could do was work. Whatever happened from there was outside of my control and a the very least I would learn more to take to the next opportunity. In short, I assumed the following stance; We only consider

April 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Mistakes You Make

Everyone is their own worst critic. I can pick out mistakes I made on a project, team or code a mile away. Heck I’m looking at flooring I laid down and there might as well be bright red ink painted around all the mistakes I made in what I installed. But when other people look at the finished product, they don’t see them. They probably don’t see them until you point them out. And even, they are in the tiniest of corners that they make little to no sense as to why you are worrying about them. These are the

April 25, 2021

Greg Thomas

The New Vacation

Vacation, for me, was always book ended with a day of decompression on the first day of vacation and a day of preparation on the last day of vacation. The decompression was to get out all the remaining thoughts I had in my head as to what was going on at work, while the preparation was the day/night before to go through emails and get myself ready for what will be coming my way. In my first vacation as since, I have found that the decompression has taken an extra day or two to completely filter out while the preparation

April 23, 2021

Greg Thomas

You Owe Them Something

Shipping code is a partnership between you and your customer. If you are late on something (for whatever reason), like any good partner you probably owe them a gimme, a goody, something extra. That little bit of UI trickery they were looking for that they didn’t originally ask for, give it to them. That back-end functionality that correlates their data, find the time and make it happen. No one is saying you need to give them everything in the world to make them happy. But you need to remember it’s a partnership, almost like a marriage, where there is give