Articles for category: Drive

February 24, 2021

Greg Thomas

It’s the Standard

So the standard, that hasn’t changed in the past ten years, hasn’t been updated and/or improved upon is the Standard? The standard that we have built countless workarounds, around everything that we do and has added workload to all that we do? Standards are great, only if they evolve. When they stop evolving, they stop becoming a standard and instead become a nuisance or a tolerance. If you are responsible for a standard, identify what it does and doesn’t so it’s clear what people get from you. Look at the evolving nature of what your standard is, how does it

February 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Rush to Fix

When a catastrophic issue arises on your project, the immediate push is to get in there and fix it as soon as possible. How can we patch? How can we get to the bottom of it? How can we make it work better? We do this, without fully understanding the extent or impact to the problem as a whole. We do this without possible fully understanding all the issues at large but wanting to do something, to show progress and make it look like we have resolved the issue. The better strategy is to take a step back and look

February 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

Hitting the Wall

Here’s the thing no one says about the Wall. We all hit it. All the time. Every day. In different ways then how everyone else hits it, at different activities, on different projects, with different people. There is not safety from not hitting the wall. At some point in your life, you will crash into the wall, slam hard into it via a slow-motion montage action movie shot. If you haven’t hit it, you have, you just didn’t give it a name, you got up and moved on. And that’s what you do when you hit the wall, you get

February 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

Battle of the # BOTS

Try a hashtag and get some retweets and likes. Now what did the use of that wonderful hashtag get you? You could write anything in the world and use that hashtag and get the same number of retweets, likes and engagements? Your business/side hustle/portfolio/project isn’t driven by the number of followers, shares or likes that you get – it’s driven by what you do, when you need to do it.

February 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

The “Extra” Remote Work

We know we’re all doing it. We check our email another few times. We put the polish on that last piece of code, work, idea so we can “jump” in tomorrow. We try to replicate our old routines in the remote world but they don’t quite fit so then we try and figure them out a little more. When it’s just you that’s remote, the extra isn’t as much as it normally is, but when everyone is remote, the extra grows, it grows because we’re all in the same boat and we’re all trying to figure it out. Put the