Articles for category: Initiative

September 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Training Queue

Yes, I have a queue of training programs in my Udemy account and other places. Yes, I am behind. Yes, I am trying to chip away at that pile. Yes, I bought a bunch of them on sale. Yes, I was full of heart and ambition when I purchased them thinking I could do it all in two weeks. And Yes, I will get them. But that’s the beauty of a queue, you know what’s up next and can have something to look forward to, no matter how long it takes to get there. It used to be you had

September 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

How long to Design?

I struggle with this question quite often – how long will it take me to design an end-to-end, bulletproof, final solution? I don’t have an answer for this, I wish I did, but I don’t – sometimes I can design solutions quickly based on what I know of the platform, other times I’m stymied and I don’t know. Is it because I don’t know what I’m doing? Is it because I don’t want to commit to how long it’s going to take? I can design on the fly as I’m cranking out code, but I know whenever I finish, I’m

September 5, 2021

Greg Thomas

This is where it Gets Awkward

In any process, whether it’s code, leadership, team development, building, whichever, there is a part where it gets awkward. Perhaps it’s a hypothesis that failed. Maybe your design fell on its face. Maybe the presentation on team growth fell flat. Whatever it is, there is that awkward moment of silence where you can either look it in the eye and figure out how to fix or you can let it sit there, stare at it, get mad at it, blame everyone around you for it because “hey, I didn’t ask for this awkwardness”. But if you can embrace it and

September 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

That First Step is a Doozy

Of course, it’s going to be a doozy. What first step wasn’t a doozy? What thing did you ever start for the first time that the first step wasn’t the hardest? The first time you walked. The first code you ever wrote. The first bug you ever worked on. If it wasn’t a doozy, it wouldn’t be worth doing. And if it wasn’t a doozy, it wasn’t something new.

September 1, 2021

Greg Thomas

Reinventing the Wheel

It’s been done, there are no more wheels to invent. You can make them faster, you can use different materials, you can control them remotely and I’m sure there are a hundred other things you can do to tweak them and make them better. But you can’t reinvent them. The same might be for your product, your code, your team – you can’t reinvent it, it’s there, it works, it might need some tweaks, but the base is there. The old expression is – “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water” (not sure who would ever do this)

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