Articles for category: Delivery

October 1, 2024

Greg Thomas

Overt Customizations

You purchase a product. You customize it. You customize it some more. You keep tinkering and tweaking until there is nothing left of the original save for your customizations. You now have a mess of an upgrade on your hands. You now have time spent figuring out why you had to customize it to the nth degree. If you’re having to customize something you bought that much, it might be a sign, you need to build it. Either that or document everything you do from Day 1 (and we know how that works).

September 30, 2024

Greg Thomas

Do the Hard Work First

Don’t tell anyone what you’re doing. Don’t brag about it. Don’t post it. Don’t like it or subscribe to it. Just do it. Do the Hard work first, everything else is easy work. Anyone can do the easy work. We need the hard work.

September 22, 2024

Greg Thomas

Level Up

The best, absolute best, part of any video game is leveling up. You do a bunch of “stuff”, gain enough of “something” and level up. You become bigger, better, and stronger. And from there, you get “points” that you can spend to further your development.  Points that can make you smarter, and stronger, make old tasks easier to accomplish, and give new ones a better chance at success. It’s the same in life, except you don’t get to see the screen in front of you, you don’t get to make that pick for “points” and then “it’s there” and you

September 19, 2024

Greg Thomas

Unclear Meetings

Don’t leave a meeting not sure what you are supposed to do next. Don’t leave a meeting knowing people who attended are not sure what to do next. Don’t attend a meeting if you’re not sure what it’s about or whether you need to be there. None of this is being rude (unless you’re being rude), it’s about holding yourself, your teams, and your meetings to a higher standard.

September 18, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Unintended Path

You didn’t sign up for it. You didn’t ask for it. In some cases, you probably didn’t even want it and avoided it as much as you can. But here you are, on that path, that unintended path. And you have two options; Make it the path you want to be on. Sit until you’re able to do #1. It’s okay to start with #2, but it’s not okay to stay there.  The longer you stay on #2, the worse #1 looks, but the sooner you get onto the Unintended path, the sooner you make it your own, you make