Articles for category: Delivery

April 14, 2025

Greg Thomas

Collaboration Not Required

We ask kids to work together to solve problems. We ask kids to play on teams to solve problems. When young adults go get jobs, we ask them to reach out to coworkers for help. When they start their first full-time job, we implore on them to ask questions and bring others into the conversation to resolve issues. Work as a team, be a part of the team and support everyone else. But when it comes to Post Secondary education – “though shall not talk to anyone or ask anyone for help”. I see where everyone is getting confused now

April 13, 2025

Greg Thomas

Showing Your Work

It’s getting harder to show your work. What are you going to show when asking a question to a search engine? Your question? What about ChatGPT? Your prompt? Work is important, it matters, but showing what you are working on, and how you are arriving at your answer is changing. The question of how you got to that answer needs to change as well. I tried this, then I tried that, I didn’t agree with all of it, so I dug deeper, then I thought of this, then I asked someone for help and then I got here. Showing your

April 10, 2025

Greg Thomas

Gut It

Ever looked at a project and thought – “This is a gut job”? Take it right down to the bare bones, save nothing, and start all over again, from the foundation up? It’s our first instinct when something is wrong – “Let me rebuild it the way I would do it.” But what we often forget when it comes to the Gut Jobs; The overages (because they will happen). Living through it (because you will have to). Getting to where you are now (because you do want to ship at some point). The toll it will take (not only on

April 9, 2025

Greg Thomas

Building Your Own Tools

When the tools you have don’t work, sometimes you need to take on the arduous task of building your own. From there, it becomes a question of whether you’re going to share it with the team and others in its stable form or go the route of sharing how you built it with others (a la Github) or not share it with anyone at all. The first option is pretty safe, people can’t see what your code looks like, so they use it, and thank you. The second option is open to questions and interpretation – Why did you build

April 6, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Burst

The burst happens when you’re tired. When you don’t think you have any energy left to give. When all you want to do is sit down and rest. But then you see something, a spark, a moment where you think you can make a difference, and from nowhere this swell of energy comes out at you and you know you have to capitalize on it. Some people are able to continually change bursts together (which often times leads to burnout), other people take their time, choose when to pick the burst that matters most to them, picking their moments, and

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