Articles for category: Growth

February 25, 2025

Greg Thomas

Approaches vs Fixes

Fixes are minor annoyances that bug us and hold us back. Add a label, change the field, move a button to the right, add a new page, clean up the navigation, add in some extra fields, show this as a grid, use a different UI widget, etc, etc. Fixes are a long list, they are the backlog that drags on forever that you open up and say – “Does this stuff still matter?” They do, to someone, and they are holding back the success of your project and work. Approaches are different. Approaches are how we solve a group of

February 24, 2025

Greg Thomas

What You Put In

What you put in, is what you get out. If you want to know more, you need to learn more (Udemy courses are cheap and a great Getting Started). If you want to have more experience, find more work (not always the easiest) but you can lower your rates, reach out to groups you wouldn’t normally hit up, market yourself to other companies, engage in freelancing, build “stuff” for yourself while looking for that great opportunity. Want to get better at something, practice doesn’t always lead to perfection, but it will lead to improvement, no matter which way you look

February 22, 2025

Greg Thomas

Shipping Your Product

What product are you shipping? Is it your code?  Your writing?  Your art? It probably isn’t what you think it is and/or at least not in the tangible form that you would associate with being a typical product. It’s something more, something bigger. Your value. Your integrity. Your work ethic. Your drive. Your delivery. Your initiative. Maybe it’s all these, maybe it’s more – but that’s your product, that’s what you’re shipping, that’s what people are looking for you to ship and wanting to see from you every day. Because you ship your product, each and every day, that’s how

February 21, 2025

Greg Thomas

Who Viewed Your Profile

You didn’t care before so does it matter now? Even if it’s “someone from here looked at your profile”. Does it matter? Someone from somewhere looked at a piece of your profile that is somewhere on the main page of all of the accomplishments and work you have done over the years. Did they zero in on anything? Did anything speak to them? Or was it nothing more than a keyword? A targeted search? A verb? Don’t get fooled into making your profile about someone else looking at it – keep making it for yourself, for what you want to

February 20, 2025

Greg Thomas

Cold Walks

Want to break out of your meeting “blahs” or get a problem completely out of your head? Go for a walk – a cold walk – a walk so cold that your face is freezing and all you can think about is getting back to working on that problem you were trying to escape from. A walk where all you can think about is your face freezing and how warm your mitts truly are. I don’t do these types of walks all the time (they are too cold) – but it’s a great way to break out of the funk

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