Articles for category: Drive

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

April 22, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Day after the Demo

There is a feeling of calm – it’s done, you did it – it’s over, hopefully it was well received. Hopefully there were some bugs that popped up (because that means you’re not done). But now it’s time for the next stage of work. Now it’s time to get back to ground zero and work your way back up to the next demo, the next release, the next push. You might be feeling a little lost due to the reaction of some of the big pieces that you wanted to showcase that went over “okay” and other smaller pieces that

April 20, 2021

Greg Thomas

Getting Better vs Looking Better

There is a difference between getting better and looking better. When you are getting better – you are focused on your team, their growth, their skills, their objectives, delivering the work that you do – in doing so you might have to change gears on the fly, you might have to shift your approach, you might have to try out new ideas. To the outside, it might not look great, but you’re in it for the long run, you’re in it for the growth and the betterment of your team. That is all that you are in it for –

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