Articles for category: Initiative

March 12, 2021

Greg Thomas

Prioritize Your Thoughts

We have so many ideas, directions, thoughts, running through our heads at any one point in time. Forget the phone, my brain is what is making me want to close my eyes and figure out what to do! On top of all this, we have the incoming priorities of the world, country, province and everything else coming at us that many times we are reading articles and having to draw matrix lines between what someone said here to how it maps over to here. And we haven’t even entered in the office where we still struggle with how to effectively

March 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Change in Virtual Interviews

Interviews are changing, they have changed. The remote interview is no longer the outlier, it’s now the standard. Over the phone interviews are being replaced by video interviews in your own living room with your family working in the background. Sure you might still be getting those 4 – 7 hour take home coding interviews (another story in of itself) but for the most part you are not going in to have interviews in person. What does this mean for you? Is that committee of 5 people all going to sign in at once to stare down this one person?

March 5, 2021

Greg Thomas

How do you Show Up?

Do you come prepared for meetings? Are you always late to ZOOM calls? Does your work get pushed out from sprint to sprint? Do you ignore the big problems hoping go away? Do you appear with unbridled positivity? Do you take feedback or only seek validation? How you show up, how you present who you are to people, is how you will be seen. If you are always unprepared for meetings, showing up late and derailing meetings, you probably won’t get asked back – that’s how you decided to show up that day – maybe there was a reason, but

March 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

You’re always Catching Up

I wrote this on Impostor Syndrome awhile ago. You know what it is right? That feeling of being somewhere you don’t belong but wanting so bad to be there and yet you are filled with this feeling of not belonging and being found out… to be a… gasp… “Impostor”. It’s incredibly reminiscent of the game “Among Us” where the goal of the game is to root out the Impostor (because they are trying to kill you). As long as you aren’t malicious, misleading or lying to people, you’re not an Impostor, you’re simply learning, in the best way possible –

March 3, 2021

Greg Thomas

Getting Traction

Traction is what we all want, but is the hardest thing for us to get. We want our code to take to take root and run perfectly. We want our ideas to find meaning with people and make an impact. We want everything we are building to be rejoiced and admired by our customers. However long it takes or when it happens, it has never happened overnight. Showing up, putting in that effort, making those incremental gains, each and every day. That’s how you gain traction, now how you keep it and maintain it? That’s for you to decide.

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