Articles for category: Growth

November 8, 2016

Greg Thomas

Stop Talking about Change

I strongly dislike conversations about Change. I like Change, but eschew conversations about it. Long, drawn out conversations, with many milestones, devil’s advocates discussions that lead into follow-ups to the follow-ups and target dates for delivery some time next month at the end of a cycle that may or may not happen. It get’s exhausting. What I do like is change. The conversations that take 15 minutes and establish a new direction that everyone moves forward with. Maybe it’s not 15 minutes, maybe it’s an hour or a day long session – but the intent, the direction, the vision at

October 29, 2016

Greg Thomas

Refactor your Workspace

Of all the peeves that drive developers crazy, it’s messy code, cluttered code, code that works, but is not as good as it could be. When we’ve finally had enough – we Refactor it and clean it up. When we check in that refactored code, most likely it breaks a slew of sloppy code somewhere else, so we go fix that. And we keep doing that – build, fail, clean, build, fail, clean – practice because at the end of the day; clean, organized code is gorgeous to look at and aligns perfectly to the vision in our heads. But

October 26, 2016

Greg Thomas

Everything is an Experiment

As we progress in our careers and rise through the proverbial ranks we must never forget to stop and look back. Whether it’s a new process, idea, suggestion, etc, we must always have the strength and desire to look back – analyze what went right or wrong and identify what we can borrow from that experience to get better for the next one. A good way to think of this is to take every process, idea, suggestion and classify them as experiments. By immediately labeling them as such our paradigm shifts from being concerned about it being a success or

September 22, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Big Computer Rebuild

Two years ago when I went to rebuild my computer I would do the following; Backup all my personal files to a drive. Gather all my installs that I had download and put them on a drive. Get all bookmarks and favourites together so I wouldn’t lose them. Grab my mail files Format PC. Fiddled around with my drivers. Restore all that I backed up. Here is what I did a few weeks ago when I had to do this; Format PC. Downloaded Dropbox and synchronized my files. Logged into Chrome and retrieved all my bookmarks. Fiddled around with my

September 9, 2016

Greg Thomas

Do Something Different

There are a number of apps out there that all do the same thing, in the same way, on the same platform. And there is still room for more – the path is there, the hurdles are known, the market might not yet be saturated. Get in there and squeeze the last bit of juice from that lemon. Or – do something completely different, that goes against the grain, where the pitfalls are unknown, something that questions the status quo, that forces you to lead without declaring yourself a leader and above all where no market go exists. Give that

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