Articles for category: Delivery

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Pace We Keep

Everyone has a different running pace that is perfectly attuned to our bodies, it is a system that is designed for us to be successful without hurting ourselves. The same applies to the work we do; we have a pace that works for us – I might be able to do a few things at once and keep track of 3 – 4 projects concurrently, someone else might be able to do more or less. But what happens when our paces don’t line up and we are on the same work together? Do we drop to the slowest pace? That

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Best Food is Messy

Cheeseburgers, Tacos, Sandwiches packed with everything you can think of, heck even a fresh Orange. You take a bite and they melt away in your hands, leaving a mess on the plate, your hands, and possibly your shirt. And yet we order more, more and more and more. It tastes great, it’s worth the mess, the juice is worth the squeeze. All of it can be messy, but the end is perfection. Not everything gets you there perfectly.

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Questions from your Work

If you don’t want to be challenged on your work, you have two choices; Don’t work (improbable). Do work where you won’t be challenged (i.e., something where we don’t care about the quantity or value of what you are doing). But you should want to be challenged in your work, you should want to be pushed, you should want to answer for your work. Because that is the only way you will get better.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Do Not Disturb Makes a Comeback

Last week, I had a lot of work to get done, so I did the unthinkable – I put myself into Do Not Disturb. I generally don’t like to do this because then I feel unavailable to my team and people asking me questions, but I had to do something. At first, it was very unnerving because all the noise around me went quiet. I literally shut the door to my office, threw away the key, and no one was getting in. And it was glorious. All the thinking and scribbling work that had to get done got done, big

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Hidden Value in Subtitles

Have you ever watched a show with subtitles? I have a hard time watching “dubbed” over shows, because the words never line up with the video, and my brain can’t unsee it when it happens. Plus, when you hear the original voices and then the dubbed ones, your brain also goes – “those original voices are so much better than these other ones, I like them better”. But then, to understand what is being said, if you don’t know the language, you need to turn the subtitles on. And what do the subtitles make you do? They make you read,