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March 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

Time to Turf the Green Icon

If you’re still sitting down at your desk and checking to see who is “Green” and ready to go. You’re missing the point. I wrote about this early in the Pandemic when everyone went remote – Forget the Green Icon – because immediately I saw people staring down that icon and using it as the primary barometer to see whether their teams were contributing. The truth behind those icons, they are aggregates or estimates on what is happening on those devices. There are APIs and SDKs that let you program what state you want to be in and you as

March 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Good Enough?

I heard this line in a recent promotion for a new show on HBO, I’m paraphrasing here but it went something like this… There are Expectations for me to be something that I’m not good enough to be. When we question what we are working on or what we are doing, how often do we feel that way? Is that the root of being considered an Impostor or not “good enough” to do this work at hand? Is this what roils the confusion and frustration within us? I don’t know, all I know is this quote has me thinking about

March 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

What’s your Lead Time?

Whenever I ask for a quote from a contractor, the follow-up question is always – “What’s the Lead Time to when you can start?” Always I ask this question, because as someone running their own company, with a variety of clients, I know that when I don’t get asked this question it inevitably means I need to curb their thoughts. Translation = I can’t start tomorrow I think this question doesn’t get asked enough? Instead we keep making that dangerous assumption that this person will push everything out of their life, sacrifice everything they have spent years building up and

March 5, 2021

Greg Thomas

How do you Show Up?

Do you come prepared for meetings? Are you always late to ZOOM calls? Does your work get pushed out from sprint to sprint? Do you ignore the big problems hoping go away? Do you appear with unbridled positivity? Do you take feedback or only seek validation? How you show up, how you present who you are to people, is how you will be seen. If you are always unprepared for meetings, showing up late and derailing meetings, you probably won’t get asked back – that’s how you decided to show up that day – maybe there was a reason, but

March 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

You’re always Catching Up

I wrote this on Impostor Syndrome awhile ago. You know what it is right? That feeling of being somewhere you don’t belong but wanting so bad to be there and yet you are filled with this feeling of not belonging and being found out… to be a… gasp… “Impostor”. It’s incredibly reminiscent of the game “Among Us” where the goal of the game is to root out the Impostor (because they are trying to kill you). As long as you aren’t malicious, misleading or lying to people, you’re not an Impostor, you’re simply learning, in the best way possible –