Articles for category: Growth

Code Your Way Up is Available Today

Aka – the Neverending Project. If you’ve been reading what I’ve been putting out over the past few years or engaged in some conversations on topics of software and leadership, I have good news – I finally finished the neverending project. Code Your Way Up is available today for purchase as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). Full details are available here on all the going ons and how to stay in the loop post-launch but most importantly, I would love to hear from those that read it, what are your thoughts, what resonates, what’s good, etc,

March 2, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Hard thing about Communities

The thing about community, the really hard thing about community, is that we all want to be part of one and benefit from what it has to offer. On the outside, it is a great idea and we want to share in the wealth and prosperity of the community, we all want to be a part of it. The easy thing is contributing to the community because when you are contributing to the community, you no longer worry about the benefits or what it has to offer you, you are already experiencing. You get more out of what you put

February 25, 2020

Greg Thomas

Interviewing Yourself

If you’re stuck for ideas on what you should be doing next, try interviewing yourself. Not, looking the mirror and giving yourself one of those hardened looks for you to power through and get the job done, but interview yourself, with questions that might provoke answers that you might not have already considered. A good idea is to put yourself on stage, at a conference, at a talk and imagine the questions people are asking you. What comes from it, might just lead us to the next project that you should be working on.

February 24, 2020

Greg Thomas

I’ll Miss Tying the Skates

When I don’t have to tie them anymore, I will miss all the times I got to tie their skates. And in leading your team, pushing them on, growing them, what are you going to miss when you finish this next project? Deliver this next product? And if you know you’re going to miss it, what are you going to do differently today to get the most out of it?