Articles for category: Growth

4 months ago

Greg Thomas

I Miss Groups

LinkedIn is becoming a massive hype engine for what people are and are not doing. When I first joined LinkedIn, the magic were the groups – where you congregated with people and talked about issues in your industry and how to help each other, you shared pieces of knowledge, and you connected with people with like concerns. Groups don’t even make the main navigation anymore. Which is too bad because it was the best part of the community that existed.  What I loved most about it was how you to go learn from so many people beyond all their posts.

4 months ago

Greg Thomas

I love my Desktop

I don’t know where the existence of desktop computers is going to go in the future, but I still absolutely love my desktop. It is stable. I don’t need or want to carry it everywhere. I don’t need a docking station; it IS the docking station. I never worry about having enough ports. I can do so much more multitasking on it. And best of all, when I sit down to work with it, I sit down and get to work; I don’t spend the first 15 minutes figuring out dongles and cords and cameras. I just work. We’ve taken

4 months ago

Greg Thomas

And that’s a Wrap

So you didn’t get everything done. And some things you started, stopped, started again, but couldn’t find the magic mix. You carried that throughout the year and it became worst this month as you looked back on things. Great, now, the year is over, write it all down on a piece of paper, ball it up and throw it out. That’s a wrap and in less than 24 hours you get to make a real dent in the universe.

4 months ago

Greg Thomas

Make it Worth It

If you’re going to put in the effort to make something better, to fix a problem, to build something new, to write a book. Don’t do it halfway. Don’t compromise. If you’re going to do it, make it worth the outcome you put into it. Make it worth every second so when you look back you know the value of what you did. Don’t confuse the success with sales, the success is the accomplishment.

4 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Pieces of your Solution

Solutions are not delivered all at once. We lay the foundation months before, but changing how the team works. We identify what we need to research and how to solve the problem. We integrate new libraries and frameworks and develop patterns of implementation. And then we build and release dependent components and features ahead of time making sure they all come to together and function together. We build the risky first. And then when that is all done, what everyone sees and raves about? Is the final solution, delivered to your device of choice. But nothing happens all at once.