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September 7, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Giveback

Last week I was reflecting on all the amazing topics and conversations we have had over with Remotely Prepared and all the great (and appreciative) feedback I have had on Code Your Way Up. To say that it has been easy launching both before and during a pandemic would be an understatement. Through that, I have found the “real work” to occur after what I look back on as the “fun work” which is the building of the product – the podcast, the book. The “real work” being getting it out there and getting the messages for both to connect

September 6, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Power Outage

The only way to keep going in a power outage is to have a generator waiting behind the scenes ready to go when you lose all connectivity. Except it’s possible to maintain complete connectivity in an outage, regardless of batteries or UPS. Eventually the internet will drop, eventually you’ll have moment to power down all of your devices gracefully and eventually it will be just you and the pen. What are you going to do when you can’t connect to anything? What will consume? What will you do?

September 5, 2020

Greg Thomas

Meeting Rooms are Everywhere

The amount of meetings you used to have, were constrained by the physical limitations around you. Startups are, generally, in smaller places, so they start off with smaller and less meetings. They simply can’t have meetings all the time because if they did, they’d be having them on Tim’s desk or besides Sales when they are on a call. Instead they are informal. When a startup gets a dedicated meeting room, meetings ramp up and the place is “busy” because now we people have an official place to congregate and discuss “things”. If you were to place that small little

September 4, 2020

Greg Thomas

Running a Technical Interview

I’ve tried everything when it comes to interviews for developers. What I’ve found over the last few years as to what sticks and what really shows me what you know that you are doing? Is for you to talk. I want to hear you talk about applications you built. I want to hear you say what went right and what went wrong. I want to hear what you would change. I want to know why you went with a certain framework and not another one. I want to know why you didn’t do performance testing. I want to know how

September 3, 2020

Greg Thomas

Book Publishing in a Pandemic

I’m loving the conversations we are having as part of the Remotely Prepared Podcast. One of our latest interviews is with Jesse Finkelstein of Page Two Publishing where she talks about the state of book publishing in the middle of a pandemic and how they are supporting not only their team, but their authors throughout the process. It’s a great example of community at it’s finest. The full episode is here.