Articles for category: Drive

March 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

Time to Turf the Green Icon

If you’re still sitting down at your desk and checking to see who is “Green” and ready to go. You’re missing the point. I wrote about this early in the Pandemic when everyone went remote – Forget the Green Icon – because immediately I saw people staring down that icon and using it as the primary barometer to see whether their teams were contributing. The truth behind those icons, they are aggregates or estimates on what is happening on those devices. There are APIs and SDKs that let you program what state you want to be in and you as

March 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

You’re always Catching Up

I wrote this on Impostor Syndrome awhile ago. You know what it is right? That feeling of being somewhere you don’t belong but wanting so bad to be there and yet you are filled with this feeling of not belonging and being found out… to be a… gasp… “Impostor”. It’s incredibly reminiscent of the game “Among Us” where the goal of the game is to root out the Impostor (because they are trying to kill you). As long as you aren’t malicious, misleading or lying to people, you’re not an Impostor, you’re simply learning, in the best way possible –

February 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Snow Days

What is it about a Snow Day that makes us go crazy with relief? Everything we had planned suddenly shifts beneath us and the day seems filled with possibilities? We become rejuvenated (even if we go back to bed) mentally as though nothing can stop us, hold us back or push us down. We feel invincible and now everything that seemed out of reach is now within it. And all becomes of some nice-looking precipitation? Whatever it is, the question we need to ask ourselves – is how can we start with that question every… single… day.

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

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