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Every Day, Something New
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The Inversion of your work
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It Doesn’t Work the Way I Thought
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Forcing the Seat at the Table
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TechDebt is becoming the Dream
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We used to be Organized?
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What’s the Priority?
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The New Car Smell
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Build Something Better
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The Impact of a SWOT Analysis
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When you think you have it, 10 minutes later there is a post about something undoing what you have just spent the last few days trying to master. It can be demoralizing that the thing you figured out is now gone and replaced. But maybe everyone hasn’t seen it. Or maybe, based on their environment, they cannot even use it. Whatever the case, don’t downgrade your learning, the work you put in, the effort you went to get there – just because someone took what you learned and made it faster. “If it was that simple, everyone would be doing …
5 days ago
The Inversion of your work
Greg Thomas
I watched Jim Lee do this incredible drawing on YouTube once of Magneto. It all started from his hand, where it’s white, nothing but a blank page, but every line and shadow emerges from that clean and white component as crisp as the page he started on. From there, everything inherits and extends from. It’s an inversion of work – nothing had to be done in that one spot, but around it, everything sprang from it to create an incredible masterpiece. No other comments, just beyond impressive. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as …
1 week ago
It Doesn’t Work the Way I Thought
Greg Thomas
Great, figure out another way to make it work. This has been the problem that programmers and developers have been faced with for years and years on end. API is more limited than they thought. Overuse and you get throttled. Data is hoarded instead of shared. Capabilities are limited without lots of workarounds. Great, it doesn’t work the way you thought; the absolutely amazing part of your journey starts to happen. Go make it work the way you thought. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and …
2 weeks ago
The Impact of a SWOT Analysis
The SWOT Analysis has been around for as long as I’ve been learning. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats You can apply it to anything and everything – how do you fare internally vs what is coming your way externally? We can apply it to our team, our company, our industry, continually looking inward and outward. It’s a good tool to get information out into the open, but it only works when we take the next step – action. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m …
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The Skills You Need
In the AI era of development, you might not need to know every single development framework under the sun. But you should still know the ones you are asking AI to build – afterall – whose going to be fixing the bugs? Problem identification has, and always will be, important and will never go out of style. Being able to look at an issue and break it down – “this is important but not urgent” is a skill many lack. Debugging is going to be the #1 skill of any developer – how quickly and efficiently can you diagnose an …
Plan Forward
It seems odd: a Plan that moves you forward. But sometimes, it bears reminding – plans are built to move the team forward, to show progress, delivery, and success. They are meant to deliver. If your plan doesn’t move forward, what is it moving to? 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.