34 minutes ago
I Can do That!
1 day ago
This Looks Like a Good Problem to Solve
2 days ago
No One Person is the Meeting
3 days ago
Worth the Travel?
4 days ago
Training an LLM for a Marathon
5 days ago
Your First Meeting
6 days ago
One thing AI will never be able to do
1 week ago
How about Fixing Traffic?
1 week ago
I got Skillzzzz
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Who Generated this Code?
34 minutes ago
Great, go do it. Stop waiting for permission. Stop waiting for a response. Just go and do it. Actions will always succeed words. 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.
1 day ago
This Looks Like a Good Problem to Solve
Greg Thomas
Often when I’m working through problems, I’ll find another one that looks good to solve. It’s very akin to when you’re putting up a shelf – oh yeah, it needs to be level, I want it screwed into a stud, I want the screws hidden – and this then breeds things like – oh wait, the wall has a bend in it, I need to account for it, or the studs don’t line up as they should. Some of these problems you need to fix now, others can wait (studs in the wrong place) – you have to choose what …
2 days ago
No One Person is the Meeting
Greg Thomas
If one person cannot attend the meeting, you need to cancel the meeting. The meeting should then be about why that one person is so critical to the meeting and what we need to do to remove that dependency. A meeting of one is only good for the one. 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.
Who Generated this Code?
Is that the question we will be asked going forward? What tool did we use to generate code? If we answer that we wrote it ourselves, will we be revered as an elder who once used the magical keyboard of Orbos to decipher the code of Phobos? I don’t think any of that exists. This was a question that mattered 4 – 5 years ago when something looked off, and you wondered how something was being built. Does it matter now, though? Is it more a question of “How was this code generated?” that we will be asked going forward? …
1 week ago
What Meetings Do I need to be In?
You only ever need to be in the meetings that you actively contribute to. If you are not contributing to the meeting, you do not need to be there. If the reason you are there is so people can do their job, then you are using your meetings to solve a very different problem that cannot be solved by you being in a meeting. Take a run of your calendar and eliminate everything you don’t contribute to. If you’re missed, they will reach out; chances are, you’ll get some time back in your day. Want more? Check out my book …
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The Strategy Session
Daily meetings are tactics – what are we doing today, what did we do yesterday, where am I stuck? Everyone on the project attends and has their say. The Strategy session happens once a week. It’s not for everyone; it’s for the leadership, and it asks a different set of questions Are we moving in the right direction? Are we tracking towards our goal? What is holding the team back? How do we help? Strategy sessions need all the leadership there to make decisions and determine next steps for the week that will filter down to daily meetings. When done …