Articles for category: Drive

September 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Fallacy of Cave

I’ve written before about going into a cave. Sometimes you need to do it, sometimes you need to leave your team to do it. But you can’t do it every day. You can’t do it all the time when something goes wrong. The cave is where you are most productive without hindering your team’s productivity. If you’re always in the cave, you’re not doing you’re best work, you’re hiding.

September 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

How to Get Better at Something

Keep doing it. Over and over again until you get better. Don’t stop, don’t worry about what was goes wrong. Just keep doing it. Improve, learn from your mistakes, find gaps and make them better. But don’t stop. The fastest way to not getter is to stop.

September 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

Code and the Relay Race

Coding with a team is like a relay race. Everyone runs (Sprints) as fast as they can, they go all out, pushing as hard as they can until they can’t go any further, and then they hand off to their teammate, who goes and does the same thing. Everyone’s top speed is different, but we are all driving towards the same goal. And no one can do it alone.

September 25, 2021

Greg Thomas

Finding the Critical Gaps

In every process, delivery, action plan, etc – there are critical gaps, holes that exist that can break everything – they are that critical to the entire process. At the same time, they are the greatest opportunities and bang for our buck to make things work and fix problems. Find the gaps, fix the holes.

September 23, 2021

Greg Thomas

Jumping In

Do you know people who jump into a problem get so many accolades, thanks, handshakes (elbows), congratulations, and everything else? It’s not because they knew how to solve the problem. It’s not because they actually solved the problem. It’s not because they were the best leader or coder or anything. It’s because they jumped in. They took that step that no one else was willing to take and did it. That leapt and lead.