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Shackleton’s Journey
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How do you measure Productivity?
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Skewed Adjective AI Analysis
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But what do you Own?
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I’m not doing that bad am I?
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The Last 10% of Any Project
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Storms Expose the Cracks
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I Don’t Believe in Focus Time
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Code Like an Artist
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What’s Your Reset Limit
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One of the first leadership books I ever read was “Leading at the Edge” which centered around Shackleton’s journey to the Antarctic under horrific conditions while keeping his team together and alive. The copy I have is older than this one, but here it is if you haven’t read it. I stumbled across it, found it on a shelf at work one late night, and brought it home to read – one of the best leadership books I’ve ever read. So it was pretty cool to see this expedition to find his shipwreck here, after all those years, where his …
1 day ago
How do you measure Productivity?
Greg Thomas
By how much do you produce, and what do you accomplish? Look, it’s not a rocket science type of goal, you do work, you are productive. You don’t do work; you are not productive. Don’t make it complicated, but make sure you’re always using that metric. Doing work and delivering at the end of the week, means you were productive. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
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Skewed Adjective AI Analysis
Greg Thomas
Presentation and design have never, and will never, be my strong suit. I very much like doing all my research, gathering my notes and content, and handing it off to AI to “prettify”. Make some great infographics. Make that slide deck sing. Take my markerboard diagrams and point out the flaws. Use a consistent colour palette. All of it, yes, please. But the most annoying part is all the adjectives that get thrown around my work and other points that skew a decision, simply because I was asking a lot of questions on that one topic. Objective Analysis still holds …
1 week ago
What’s Your Reset Limit
Your limit will reset unless you want to pay more money for more tokens to do more work. Or your AI can take a break. Kind of like people on your team, you can push them for a solid 3 – 4 hours and give them a break or watch their output diminish as they become more tired. Now imagine how that feels to watch, giving your AI the break and not your team. Hint: You’re giving the wrong one the break. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on …
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The Element of Fun
In anything you do, there should always be an element of fun to it. Otherwise, why do it? When it comes to writing code, I will forever love console apps, and even now, I use AI to help me make cool pictures and have fun with them. It’s probably an early program or back to the i386 days, but it’s fun to see a little ASCII dinosaur moving across the screen. The app works and does stuff too, but yeah, that’s the fun stuff. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or …
Your Roadmap
Software products have roadmaps – it’s the direction, the map – you want to follow to get from A to B. We don’t always follow it correctly; sometimes we veer off left or right and go off-roading for a while – sometimes I wish we didn’t, but more times than not, I’m super glad we did because it ended up making the product that much better. But in the end, we hit our goal and delivered our solution – it’s a map, similar to when you’re on vacation and you stop at the shop on the way to pick up …