Articles for category: Growth

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Fork

I was reading this article a while back about StackOverflow’s decline in traffic over the past two years and what contributed to it. The best part was the last line, where it discussed “the Fork” – where hopefully StackOverflow isn’t dying, but it’s in the midst of a Fork to figure out what it is to do next. I feel that analogy can be applied to many in software right now.  I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about what we were up to and I said I’m gearing up for what’s next, retooling, relearning. That’s

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Shift in Team

Teams shift based on external factors – opportunities and threats. One makes them, urges them to take on more, excited for what is next. One pushes them to hide, close ranks, become insular, and worry about what may come. Every shift is an opportunity and a threat, depending on who you are and what your narrative is. The question becomes, what your team sees as a threat and what you need to do to shift them to seeing it as an opportunity.

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

Managing your Momentum

When you cycle, you often times go into a high gear to exert less power. Then, when the hills come, you drop a gear to reduce resistance. For each person, when they go up/down a gear, the level of resistance and when they change a gear is different. But regardless, they do it for the same reason – to maintain momentum.

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

The First 15 Pages

The first 15 pages are the test. They might not be your speed – perhaps too fast, too chaotic, too slow – perhaps that’s the narrative of the story taking place, and they want you to feel that. But they are a test. If you can get through the first 15, the next 15 might be better, or maybe you’ll have enough knowledge to know that they aren’t as bad. Then, when you’re 150 pages in, you might go – wow, this is unbelievable and incredible, why did I never read this before? Or you might realize it’s not your

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

Working through the Frustrations

When you’re learning something new, it’s the frustrations that make it worthwhile because when you break through, you realize just how far you have come. I use AI to help on the daily with tasks that I know, should know, and have worked through in the past. I went through those frustrations and learned how it worked behind the scenes so I could get to that point. If you haven’t gone through the frustrations, you haven’t learned anything; you’ve been given something, but learned something?  No. So the question is do you want to learn something or have it be