Articles for category: Initiative

January 15, 2025

Greg Thomas

Where Does this Go?

When starting a new job you want to be able to ask the question “Where does this go?” and be able to get back a clear, clean, and descript answer. You don’t want pontifications, talks about technology, or platform idioms that talk about where something goes but doesn’t go. Taken in a different vein, imagine you are helping someone move into their brand new house and you’re standing in the front foyer holding a box. The first question you will ask is “Where do you want this?” They will think for a few seconds and then give you a room

January 13, 2025

Greg Thomas

You’re Gonna Lose… Sometimes

Guaranteed, you will lose. Sometimes it will be a close loss (almost finished to the demo and then a pesky little pixel disrupted the whole thing). Sometimes it will be an epic shutdown on the launch pad that will pull down everything. Other times it might be trying to push things a bit too far and you destroy it all. It’s all a loss – it doesn’t matter whether it’s close or far away – it’s a loss. You won’t always lose, but you will lose. Now, is it worth it to complain about how much you lost by or

December 28, 2024

Greg Thomas

Clear Heads

Want to know which option is best? Clear your head of all the distractions. Want to know whether you should take your job? Break it down to the two jobs and clear your head of all other offers. Not sure what platform works best for you? Outline a few tests, measure against those tests, clear out the what-ifs, and move on. Adding more criteria, more reasons, more questions, more options, doesn’t help us get to the right solution we are pushing towards.  They might all be valid, but at some point in the decision-making process, you have to go with

December 26, 2024

Greg Thomas

A Different Boxing Day

Does Boxing Day still have the same flavour and ring to it that it used to? Does it matter anymore now that so much can be online? Should we be treating it a different way now? How many decorations come down today? The holiday can stay, but maybe the purpose and reason can change to something else.

December 21, 2024

Greg Thomas

They aren’t at my Level

No one is at your level, have you looked in the mirror? Everyone is at different levels, you were at someone else’s level once, and someone else was at your level once. There is always something to learn, always somewhere to grow. Don’t mistake what someone doesn’t know as being inferior, recognize it for them needing to be taught, coached and mentored to be at your level.

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