Articles for category: Delivery

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Learner’s Journey

The Learner’s Journey starts with knowing nothing. Then they encounter some beginner’s luck and make something happen, possibly even get some praise. So they want to dig in and learn more, get better and stronger, focus more, learn more, maybe even become an expert. And then the hard part starts, they get stuck, they stumble, they realize their growth is plateauing and they need to adjust and twist more. Everyone goes through this, everyone – and when working with those that are on the journey (or if I’m in it), I always equate my growth to how many questions I’m

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

AI is all Flow, no Switch

Conversations about Flow state raged for years – how to get there, how to always be in the zone, how to reduce your context switching so you could stay in it – blogs were built around this topic. AI is always in a state of Flow, it has no context switching, and if it does, it’s not showing up. So the next time you’re in a work call and everyone’s freaking out about AI, remind them that the biggest thing holding your team back is that you still cannot, reliably, get into that flow state.

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Metrics that Matter

Does time to complete actually matter anymore? What about the quality of the work? What about the efficiency with which you completed the work? What about how much of it you were able to do independently? What about the value you created in your work? If all you’re measuring is speed, then yes, AI is going to slaughter you. But there is more than metric to measure by.

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Line by Line

As much as you try to avoid it. Sometimes you need to investigate a problem line by line. Similar to when you’re trying to find the connecting electrical wire, you need to investigate each one, line by line. There will always be a need to diligently, logically, and carefully identify and walk through a problem. Line by Line doesn’t go away, it just evolves into the next line by line search.

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Reshaping your Work

AI is reshaping how we do our work. I was just at the age where I could apply the internet immediately to what I was doing when it took off.  I started coding HTML and learning how to make things work, and from there went into JavaScript and many other lovely languages 🙂 My work wasn’t reshaped at that point; it just took on this “thing” called the “Internet”. But now I’m embedded, now I’ve developed and grown with the Internet, and now AI is literally and figuratively reshaping everything I do. When you reshape, you twist and turn something