Articles for category: Growth

12 hours ago

Greg Thomas

Every Day, Something New

When you think you have it, 10 minutes later there is a post about something undoing what you have just spent the last few days trying to master. It can be demoralizing that the thing you figured out is now gone and replaced. But maybe everyone hasn’t seen it. Or maybe, based on their environment, they cannot even use it. Whatever the case, don’t downgrade your learning, the work you put in, the effort you went to get there – just because someone took what you learned and made it faster. “If it was that simple, everyone would be doing

6 days ago

Greg Thomas

The Inversion of your work

I watched Jim Lee do this incredible drawing on YouTube once of Magneto. It all started from his hand, where it’s white, nothing but a blank page, but every line and shadow emerges from that clean and white component as crisp as the page he started on. From there, everything inherits and extends from. It’s an inversion of work – nothing had to be done in that one spot, but around it, everything sprang from it to create an incredible masterpiece. No other comments, just beyond impressive.

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

Forcing the Seat at the Table

You’re at the right spot, but maybe you’re not at the table yet. You’re doing all the right things to earn a spot, but for some reason have not been formally invited. You’re probably contributing more than the people who are there and generating more value than anyone wants to realize. But still no seat at the table. At this point, you have two options; Forcing your seat is easy: I have this role, I should be there, give me a seat. Setting your own table is harder; you have to create the table, you have to sit at it,

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

The Impact of a SWOT Analysis

The SWOT Analysis has been around for as long as I’ve been learning. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats You can apply it to anything and everything – how do you fare internally vs what is coming your way externally? We can apply it to our team, our company, our industry, continually looking inward and outward. It’s a good tool to get information out into the open, but it only works when we take the next step – action.

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

The Skills You Need

In the AI era of development, you might not need to know every single development framework under the sun. But you should still know the ones you are asking AI to build – afterall – whose going to be fixing the bugs? Problem identification has, and always will be, important and will never go out of style. Being able to look at an issue and break it down – “this is important but not urgent” is a skill many lack. Debugging is going to be the #1 skill of any developer – how quickly and efficiently can you diagnose an

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