Articles for category: Growth

October 9, 2024

Greg Thomas

That Neverending Noise

Over the summer I had an office flood followed by construction going on outside my window. The home office was no better with roadwork being done. I couldn’t stop the flood. I wasn’t about to tell me not to do work on their house or on a building I don’t own. But I did go buy some amazing noise-canceling headphones that blocked out the bulk of the noise and let me work. You can’t control what everyone else around you is doing, but you are in full control of your own response.

October 8, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Formation of Patterns

I want to start my day with a tea each day. That one is easy to accomplish. I also want to go for a run or bike, these are harder to accomplish. Each week I try to do a bit more. To accomplish this, I’ve made sure that the routes don’t change, the paths get worn down, and the same equipment is worn. They aren’t there yet, but the patterns are forming, falling into their familiar structure of ruts and grooves that keep them inline and make it harder to fall out of line of them. Find the pattern, repeat

October 5, 2024

Greg Thomas

Time to Respond

Do you have an ETA? Do you have an SLA? I’m not talking about company-wide time-to-respond options, I’m talking about your own internal options that govern your own operations and how you respond to people. Is it a knee-jerk response? Is it last minute? Is it immediate acknowledgment? How do you respond and how do you want to respond is what matters and it’s all up to you.

October 4, 2024

Greg Thomas

What’s Your Threshold?

What is your line in stand? The hill you’ll die on. Your last straw. It doesn’t (and shouldn’t) be as dramatic as any of the above, but knowing your threshold, your limit, is what it will help you when things go wrong. When things are going bad, we enter into the “one more” syndrome – where incrementally “one more” thing will not hurt us until one day we wake up burnt out and overloaded. Know your limit, know your threshold and beware of “one more”.

September 25, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Creative Penalty

Standards we follow, they ensure everyone is implementing repeatable work that can be shared amongst the team. I.e., we don’t need to use 7 libraries, we can use 2 and be great with it. Within those 2 libraries, be creative, come up with new ideas, and don’t be fearful of things going wrong. It’s in our creativity that our code and our work improve and grow our team. If you’re leading a team, encourage creativity, if you’re part of a team, you owe it to them to be creative. No one ever grew from doing the same thing over and

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