Articles for category: Growth

December 10, 2024

Greg Thomas

Day Long Meetings

They can be draining. Or they can be invigorating. It all depends on the energy you bring to the session. How you start, sets the tone for the day, for what you want to do and accomplish and get done. Contributing is key, the team doesn’t need a silent watcher doing other work. If you are remote, get ready to be on your camera, get ready to be engaged. Stepping out for a few minutes for that oh-so-glorious cup of tea is encouraged, but otherwise, stay on board. You can’t win every battle, choose the ones that matter most. And

December 8, 2024

Greg Thomas

Your Daily Delivery

We should ask ourselves “How was our day?” Our days are always different and that question alone has such a complex answer to it. Instead, we should ask ourselves. What did we accomplish? What did we deliver? The first question, our brains will go immediately to meetings and emails and we’ll think “Ugh what did I do today?”. But when you start with what you accomplished, what you delivered, all of a sudden all those small things that looked bad or not important – all those little meetings and emails – they add up to something great that gone done

December 7, 2024

Greg Thomas

Start Thinking of Next Year Now

You’re getting near the end of the year. Now is the time to start thinking of the changes you want to make next year. Not 2 hours before the end of the year, or 20 minutes into it. Now. Take the time, roll it over in your head, now is the time.

December 6, 2024

Greg Thomas

Learning Perspective

I’ve been spending a lot of time the last little while, learning perspective in drawing. First off, it’s a crazy number of lines.  I mean, there are lines everywhere and you wonder how anything you create is going to turn out. But then, once you’ve designed the grid, laid it out, put it together, and start adding your own components on top of it. Then the value of all those little lines comes together and becomes something. All that work to establish the layout, to understand what each position does – it’s truly amazing. And then you’ve finished creating your

December 4, 2024

Greg Thomas

Finding Your Workspace

My first job, I can only describe as 12 people crammed into a 2-bedroom apartment.  If I moved my head to the left, I would make eye contact with a person 3 ft away, 2ft beside me was another developer and 2 ft behind me were the servers.  I once backed into the server and accidentally hit the keyboard triggering a copy. My second job was in a larger building, but they never had enough room so they kept moving us around.  In the few years I was there, I think I changed desks 4 – 5 times. Then I