Articles for category: Growth

April 5, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Invisible Ladder

There is an invisible ladder we don’t see but that exists all around us. It’s the ladder we use to determine how we rank, level and compare against everyone else we know – albeit professionally and/or sometimes personally (hopefully more on the professional side). We look at the skills someone else has and think – “We need to learn that, we need to know that, that’s the missing piece to me getting better, if only I had that.” The truth about this ladder, is that it is in our head, no one else can see it, no one else knows

April 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Spring Clean

Going through the list of everything you need to do once winter is over is an exciting time. You have lists for your lists of everything you are going to get done, everything that is going to be cleaned up and made better. The excitement is in the air as the snow melts and you start to smell the fresh grass (somewhere in between everything else that you are smelling). And when you start the work, it feels phenomenal, you are whipping through tasks, making headway and knocking things off your list. But here’s the question you probably aren’t asking

April 3, 2021

Greg Thomas

It’s Been a Year…

It’s been a year, a long year, today I heard someone call it “Morch” as in, we are in more March, over and over again. New Year’s didn’t start on January 1, it started on March 14th. Here’s an update from Remotely Prepared over the past year, what we miss, what we look forward to – it’s still your year. https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/one-year-of-remote

March 31, 2021

Greg Thomas

The In-Betweener

The In-Betweener works in the shadows, between problems, trying to find solutions. The only time you will realize all that they do, is when they are not there, where issues and problems begin to arise at an increasing rate. They keep the tensions low, they keep things from simmering over and they always keep their eye on the prize. The In-Betweener is the person on your team you never interviewed for but are glad they joined your team.

March 30, 2021

Greg Thomas

Software is Not a Factory

Software is an art. Software is creative. How you learn, how you get to where you want to go, where you start from, there are so many incredible paths that you can take to get there, it boggles the mind. This is why I have never been able to see software as a Factory (granted a design pattern exists around this function). What we create, what we build, what has come out of our collective minds over the past twenty years could not have happened in a Factory. Whether you’re building your own platform, coding in C++, making a React

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