Articles for category: Delivery

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,

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

You’re Not Winning

But you’re not losing either. You just haven’t won that “thing” you’re after. That’s it, you’re not there yet, but you’re on the right path. When you connect, I don’t know, heck, I don’t even know when I’ll connect. But you’re not losing, you just haven’t won yet. Or so the speech goes.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Clarity Isn’t Just for AI

If you give out sloppy directions with AI, you’re going to get sloppy outputs. This is the proof of the words – Garbage In, Garbage Out – that humanity has been saying for years with respect to leading and guiding your team. Give people vague and cloudy notions, and what you’ll get back is vague and cloudy solutions – not very valuable. The difference between AI and Humans is that with AI we get immediate feedback on how horrible our instructions are, whereas with Humans, we try to make it work, we try to figure it out, we try to

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Bugs Won’t Fix Themselves

If you want to bring your list bug list down, start cracking. When they are assigned to you, they are on you to work on, you to identify, and you to close. You can leave the list there and ignore it, or you can do what everyone is waiting for you to do. Start closing bugs. It’s not flashy, it’s not the greatest work, but the people depending on that work being done, will definitely appreciate it and that should be enough for you to slog through it and make it happen.

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