Articles for category: Delivery

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

All of Our Jobs are Gone

If you read any news or blog site today, you will know that all of our jobs are gone. If you are sitting in a classroom right now, maybe in your fourth year, ready to get your first job, it is apparently gone, and there is nothing left for you. The degree I graduated with from university is far from what I do today, where the jobs at the time were not there, so I looked elsewhere. Where you start, where you are, is not where you have to end up. But it won’t come easily, you’ll need to work

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

What You Don’t Get From Conferences

Conferences are not training. You can travel and go to a training course where they deep dive you on a topic for one week.  Maybe you are there with a colleague or two, but you are not there with thousands of people, all in one class, all learning a topic and struggling through labs. This is good because struggling to do a lab with a thousand people would be daunting on a good day. Conferences are many things (as already gone through) but they are not training, they are learning. Different audiences, different topics, different opportunities, don’t sign up for

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

What You Get from Conferences

Conferences are a great opportunity to connect with past and former, colleagues, meet new people, and get an overview of new topics. There are some conference that will deep dive on 2 – 3 core topics but generally, they are a firehose of information coming your way. The locale is different and a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues, pick everyone’s brain without work surrounding you, and just overall learn about what does and doesn’t work in the team and what you can do moving forward. I haven’t been to a conference in a long time, but these are

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Where did I get all this Stuff?

Over time we accumulate stuff. And it’s on you to determine what of that stuff is valuable. You can keep it all, but then it might be too much to look at or you can reel it in and focus on just what brings you Joy. If it brings you Joy, keep it, if it doesn’t, ask why you have it. Each adventure we take on, we garner more stuff, only because from each adventure we want a memento of what we did, what we accomplished, and what it brought to us. All Stuff isn’t bad, but if you can’t

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

AI Elimination vs Enrichment

AI starts off like any tool we use, complementing our jobs, and making it easier to accomplish tasks. Maybe we say “Thank you” at the end of a request and it keeps chugging along. It can save time, and allow us to focus on more enriching opportunities. Or it can be used to eliminate the thing it sought to protect – creativity, people, achievement, growth. What you use it for is up to you and what you do with the savings is up to you – enrich yourself or your team, or eliminate parts of it to keep racing for