Articles for category: Initiative

May 28, 2020

Greg Thomas

Remotely Prepared Podcast

If you didn’t see it yesterday, there is a new podcast in town. In all reality, there are probably a number of them, but this one is new to me. The past few months have put an exceptional load on people and businesses as they shift their workforces to working remotely bringing up a number of new struggles and changes which they are having to implement while running their current operations. I’ve likened it to putting the car into reverse when you’re already going 100 km/hr and see how the car likes that. A colleague (Colin Harding) and I thought

May 20, 2020

Greg Thomas

What Online Conferences Miss

It would happen in more meetings than I would care to admit. But as you’re presenting, no matter the size of the group, there would be a side conversation that would start between two people at the back. It wouldn’t be malicious in intent, but the purpose was for them to discuss the topic at hand quietly and realize that they were both lost or that they both had the same question. There is strength in numbers and that’s what would then give them confidence to ask a question. In Online conferences, you don’t have someone sitting next to you.

May 19, 2020

Greg Thomas

Sometimes You Need a Project

Projects help learn new skills and get things done. People don’t learn to build houses by writing books about them and doing it all in their head without ever picking up a hammer. And it’s not entirely practical to go pick a plot of land and start building a house. Find a project that can lend itself to helping you learn a new skill. Want to learn AWS? Focus on a component of AWS, some piece of code that you can use to manage your life, maybe an app for your phone, anything that can be small enough for you

May 15, 2020

Greg Thomas

It wasn’t THAT Bad

When we think our latest effort at something was truly, horribly, the worst possible outcome, it really wasn’t that bad. When we ask someone for their opinion, it’s generally better than our own. We are hardest on ourselves. It wasn’t that bad. It’s just not as good as it was in your head. But it’s better than what others are working towards. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).

May 13, 2020

Greg Thomas

Enabling Bad Behaviour

I can’t take the credit for this – a good friend mentioned this when talking about client work that he does and it reminds me of the work that sometimes you “have to do” because the client “says they need it”. But what that work really does, is enable them to keep doing things badly. Maybe it’s a fear of change, maybe a few of something new or maybe they like doing it this way because that is the habit that they generated (bad habits are easier to set then the good ones). But at the end of the day,

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