Articles for category: Growth

June 14, 2019

Greg Thomas

Copy and Paste

I’m not going to link it here, but last week I was looking to resolve a coding problem and came across a blog that did a pretty decent walkthrough on how to solve the problem. They had a reference link embedded into the blog article that I then clicked (it went to Microsoft). The link and the blog were verbatim copy and paste with some images added in to differentiate. Don’t Copy and Paste what someone else has done, spin your own riff, write five lines on what you did differently that the referenced link didn’t, give your own take,

June 13, 2019

Greg Thomas

Lists on What Matter

LinkedIn published this list of the Top Companies to work for in Canada. I’m not sure what the criteria was to be on the list but I have a hard-time believing that the Top 9 Companies are all financial. The problem with these lists is that we worry about not being on the list so we tweak our message to get on the list (when it might not even be possible). We want to be among the companies on the list so we can be represented the same way and with the same visibility. But perhaps the issue isn’t that

June 12, 2019

Greg Thomas

The First Draft is the Hardest

The first cut. The first deployment. The first delivery. Getting to that point of – “here it is, here is what I am offering” – is the hardest step you’ll take to getting whatever that thing is out the door. What comes next will be the feedback and the critiques you need to make it better but no matter how red or how many bugs get reported. It will never be as hard as getting that first draft out the door.

May 24, 2019

Greg Thomas

Context is Key

Like most people, I was glued to my tv watching the final season of Game of Thrones. This isn’t a long-winded commentary on what did and did not work, who should have been king, lived or died. This is about context. If you only watched the first six seasons you would say it was a brilliant run – slow-burning, character-driven, dripping with tension at every moment. If you only started watching the last two season you would say it was a brilliant run – fast-paced, quick narrative, impressive action sequences, go, go, go. The key to both is the context,

April 26, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Barking Dog

I have never understood why my dog is so excited to go outside and bark non-stop for 10 – 15 minutes at the world. Even when it is dead silent and no one is around us for miles, he will leap out the door, spend this time barking into the wind and then look back at me sheepishly with a look that says – “What’d I do?” I like to think he’s bounding out into the world to tell everyone that – “I’m here, let’s do this, time to get this party started, I want to do something different, come

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