Articles for category: Growth

August 2, 2023

Greg Thomas

Doing the Bare Minimum Perfectly

The bare minimum of your application should do everything that is important to your application perfectly. If it needs to fall over gracefully, it should fall over and come back to life. If it requires logs that anyone can read, they should reference KB articles. If they are connecting people, it should connect people. If they make calls, they should make calls. If it is meant to draw a picture, it should draw the picture. The bare minimum of your application is why people buy it, everything else is an extra bonus. Being able to print the picture I drew

July 26, 2023

Greg Thomas

Training your Team

Only you know the training your team needs and only you know the path it requires for them to get there. They might be able to see it on the first day and it’s up to you to figure out how to get them there. You can either hold it into the very last day, or you can start from the beginning, map it out, do bit by bit every day, week, or month and plan for the moment when they get there and go – “I know this”.  Because when training the team, it’s not today they are being

July 21, 2023

Greg Thomas

Automation Traps

You can’t automate everything – the spark, the creative flow, the magic – that all invariably makes things work is why you are here, in the middle, to make things happen. Automation can only take you so far, but that’s when you take over to make it better. AI is a form of automation, where you take it is the value you, provide.

July 12, 2023

Greg Thomas

Minimalist Growth

There are programs that require you to get experience before you can proceed to the next level. It’s not about slowing you down (which we often think), it’s about applying what you have learned and, hopefully, questioning it, trying out what does and doesn’t work before taking the next step. Growth does not happen all at once, you might be able to cram a 17-hour course into one day, but are you better off doing it that way, or if you did it over the course of a few weeks, putting into effect what you had learned? Learning in pieces,

July 11, 2023

Greg Thomas

Summer Learning

Find a book. Start that course from Udemy you purchased six months ago. Learn a new skill. Run a little farther. No one is saying you need to master the subject, no one is saying you need to become an expert or invest 4 hours a day. Catch up on that seminar you might have missed. Most of all, Summer Learning should be about things you want to learn, not stuff that other people want you to learn, that’s why it’s way easier to do, and more enjoyable. And that’s what the summer is for.

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