Articles for category: Drive

January 11, 2018

Greg Thomas

Measure Your Mark

Every year I like to take stock of where I’ve come from and where I’m going. It’s my own moment of looking back and focussing on what is next. Measure Your Mark 2016 Measure Your Mark 2017 What did I do in 2017 compared to last year? 12 Pluralsight Courses Completed 260 Rambli Posts 11 articles on other sites Published and Presented How To Become a Great StoryTeller Started Forgotten Coder Started a Medium Blog and began contributing to It’s Your Turn Launching BetaRover and getting the message out. Started BetaRover Inc. Cofounded the Sniffing Markers Podcast Now to break it.

January 10, 2018

Greg Thomas

Sniffing Markers: Ep 13 Problem vs Function

I’ve been really bad at not promoting the Sniffing Marker podcast enough but have to say there is some really great content here. This episode is a great one and very apropos for those of us juggling contracting and freelancing duties and knowing the difference between the two. In today’s episode, Greg and Colin discuss what it’s like when we freelancers/consultants are brought in to solve a problem, compared to fulfilling a specific function. We talk about the difference between those two assignments, identifying and remaining aligned to them, and how to keep working in the right direction. We discuss

January 1, 2018

Greg Thomas

What are you hacking today?

It doesn’t have to be code. It can be how you order your food – moving from swiping to tapping your card to using your phone. It can be how you catch those pesky rodents in your garage – moving away from the store bought traps to building your own. It can be a new utility that saves you time in deploying your code – simplifying your workload. It can be how you interact with people – starting with questions you know they can’t answer negatively, but only smile at and say thanks. It can be a practice where you

December 28, 2017

Greg Thomas

Rushing to Wrong

We are all very good at Rushing to the Wrong answer when trying to solve a problem. We throw details out the window and became blinded by the end goal and direction we want to go in. We are so close that we can “taste it” and know we are on the right path. But in our efforts to get there, and only when we get there, do we finally realize that we were chasing the wrong problem, going down the wrong path and had absolutely no idea what problem we were trying to solve. When you start with everyone

December 26, 2017

Greg Thomas

The New Boxing Day

For some, this is when the New Year starts when they start gearing up for that magical December 31st where dreams can come true and everything they want to have happened starts to happen. Instead of fueling someone else’s monetary dreams, how about you take the day and focus on yours.