Articles for category: Growth

July 29, 2024

Greg Thomas

Can you Handle a Blip?

Not everything can. We used to have a great test to see if our code could survive. We pulled the network cable. That’s, no other fancy actions, just pure and simple, we pulled the cord to see what good our app would be if we yanked out the cord that powered everything. And better yet, we plugged it back in to see how it came back to life (if it did). You will suffer blips in your career, the cord will be yanked from you, you can also plug it back in to get back online. It’s not easy, but

July 28, 2024

Greg Thomas

Being Efficient… is Not Easy

It is an uphill battle. It will require phone calls and waiting for people to answer. It will require presentations and banging your head against the wall. It will require repeating yourself over and over again. It will take patience. It will time. It won’t happen overnight. But you will get there… and maybe you’ll bring some others there with you.

July 27, 2024

Greg Thomas

Do Flyers Still Work

I go to the mailbox and there is more flyers than mail crammed into that tiny little mailbox. My mail gets scrunched up because of these flyers.  Because they are being so scrunched up, sometimes they are ripped and not worth reading. 80% of these flyers don’t get opened – the only decision I make is whether I should keep them for camping to start fires with or recycle them. So where is their value? How long will it take to get rid of them?  In any movie I’ve watched that takes place in the future, no one is reading

July 24, 2024

Greg Thomas

Replacement Parts

It is incredibly frustrating to replace a thing that’s about to break with newer parts only have it to not work as well as it did. Maybe it was time, wear and tear or simply the way things were glued together – but they worked – and now that they’ve been touched they don’t. Sometimes you leave the things that are working, working because they keep humming along and getting the job done. Sometimes you don’t need the shiniest parts to show how cool it looks, it just needs to work.

July 23, 2024

Greg Thomas

What That Darned Green Icon Measures

That little green icon means nothing. It doesn’t measure what matters. Your value Your Input Your contributions Your suggestions Your ideas Your innovation It measures whether your screensaver has kicked in or your mouse is moving. Don’t let a mouse movement become your master, if you need to step away from your computer to work out a problem on a whiteboard, do it and become better for it.

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