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December 11, 2020

Greg Thomas

Who Wants to Be an Architect?

I wrote about Architects in Code Your Way Up but felt the need to digress on the topic a little bit here in a recent post on Dev.to I’ve always found the title of Architect to be a little self-fulfilling, i.e., I want to be a “title” so give me a title that sounds cool and in software, I fear that the term of “Architect” has become one of those titles. The implementation varies across people, jobs and boundaries which serves as further proof to it being a self-generated title (which is a little scarier). If you’re writing code and

December 10, 2020

Greg Thomas

Closing in on the Streak

At the beginning, if you falter, it doesn’t quite matter, you haven’t established anything yet. You can restart and still be okay with things. In the middle, sure you might be in the early stages of Craptivity, and if you have to restart, it will hurt because you put in so much effort to get there. But in the end, when you are closing in on the streak, this close to hitting the record, about to make it happen. That’s when your fingers get jittery, that’s when you feel the adrenaline searching through. And that’s when you know you are

December 9, 2020

Greg Thomas

Focus

You can be a lot of things to some people (probably not a lot). Or you can be a few things to fewer people, but those things that you focus hard on, you can be really good at (scary good) and have the potential to make a greater impact in those people’s lives. Which would you prefer to be?

December 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

What People Think

On a big initiative, where you have a lot of people reporting to you, where you have a big team and lots of money behind you it’s easy to be swayed into worrying what people are thinking and how they are viewing your progress. But just like with a small project, all that matters is the client. Nothing else.

December 7, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Expert

I was reminded of a story a while back when a friend of ours was called an expert in their field. Whatever he was talking about at that time he stopped and refuted. Even going so far as to cancel a show interview because they wanted to advertise him as an expert. His response – “No one is an expert, we are all learning, and we are all, always gaining experience.” Useful advice when you think you are at the top of game, not realizing how much you still have left to learn.