12 hours ago
Onboarding Quickly is a Skill
1 day ago
The Dying Seconds
2 days ago
Learning for the Team
3 days ago
The Flea Market
4 days ago
The Author’s Notes
6 days ago
AI RecursiveTechDebt
7 days ago
The Complaint Department
1 week ago
Hitting your Pace
1 week ago
AI Rest
1 week ago
Trends on Trends
12 hours ago
On any project, there is a point where adding more people will slow down the project as you seek to onboard them to the work everyone else is doing. It takes time to bring a new person up to speed – sometimes estimated in months when it needs to be a few days or weeks. If you are someone who comes up with a toolbox, learns in advance where the project is at and where the team is having trouble, and knows the tech stack (or is early learning it), your onboarding can drop to those mythical days and low-cost …
The Dying Seconds
Greg Thomas
The dying seconds are the most exciting because they are the finality of what everyone is counting down to. There is no interpretation of what is dying and what are seconds – they are constants reducing in uniform fashion down to 0. At the end, you either feel amazing, sad, perhaps hoodwinked, but if done right, you know that you gave everything to be there, in that moment. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
Learning for the Team
Greg Thomas
When leading a team, there are things you need to learn so your team can have someone to talk to and bounce ideas off of. You don’t need to have all the answers. You are not meant to be an expert. You are meant to be there for your team. You are meant to take that “new” thing you learned, apply everything that you know, and provide an opinion on how they could solve a problem. Sometimes, that’s why you might need to do some learning for your team, even if you’re not the one doing the actual work. Queue …
Trends on Trends
Last week I was scrolling through social media and found this cool video of a guy on a kayak, tons of camera gear, catching a fish, and cooking it on the kayak. Each time it got more elaborate with what he was cooking. Then my feed popped up with someone else doing it, with a different take on the trend; they were on a jetski, zipping around and doing the same thing. Then I saw more posts that flipped the trend a bit more, as each person had to take their crack at the trend. But in the end, there …
1 week ago
The Bermuda Triangle
I did not grow up near the sea, but I heard about the Bermuda Triangle – that’s where stuff goes and doesn’t come back – so you never go to the Bermuda Triangle. Good to know. The truth is, a few ships disappeared there that got blown way out of proportion and became sensationalized – then we gave it a cool name and the rest is history. Something might be happening in your organization that no one knows why, so they give it a name, a thought, a concept – and it becomes bigger than it is. And then you …
2 weeks ago
Various Ideas
Take all your ideas. Write them down. Order them. Prioritize what matters to you. Put them front and center in your face. Pick one. And ship. (Don’t stop at putting them in your face, this is the last step before it becomes real, where many stop, pick and go). Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.