3 days ago
The Big Day
4 days ago
Filling in Gaps
5 days ago
Trench Leadership
6 days ago
Maintaining your AI
1 week ago
The Login Problem
1 week ago
I’m Reading a Textbook
1 week ago
Software Libraries Die
1 week ago
Kick-Offs
2 weeks ago
Just a Quick Question
2 weeks ago
The Never Shipped
3 days ago
Big days are the summation of small moments that have all pulled together to make something incredible. Whether it’s weeks, months, or years of moments, all of them come together to create something incredible, so on that one big day it looks like a piece of cake. Big Days look great to everyone else, but to you, they are the culmination of so much work, effort, sweat, and tears. Make sure you take a moment to enjoy it. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). …
4 days ago
Filling in Gaps
Greg Thomas
There are some days when my role is to fill in gaps. We don’t have “X,” and no one knows “X”? Looks like I’m spending some time learning “X” today. I have zero complaints about filling gaps, because I think it’s where you can get the best opportunity to learn a new thing and figure out how it connects to everything else you do. It can seem stressful; it’s akin to someone dropping a stack of files on your desk – “Here, figure it out”. That’s okay, we need more of “Here, figure it out”. Want more? Check out my …
5 days ago
Trench Leadership
Greg Thomas
If you’re using AI to help run your team, you’re missing out on the best part of working with a team: being in the trenches with them. I’ve never been able to lead a team and not do coding with them; I can’t do it. This doesn’t mean I’m in there coding 24/7, but if I can take a few bugs off the team’s plate or figure out what some investigation issues, I will gladly do that work. Sometimes it comes in peaks and valleys, but not being in the trenches with the team, it just doesn’t feel like leading. …
2 weeks ago
The Never Shipped
Don’t let your Never Shipped get too big; it will swallow you whole. It doesn’t matter who uses it or who gets it, just that you shipped. I once built a product, put it out there, and for months no one wanted it. On the day I shut it down, a university called asking for a demo to use it. You never know until you ship. This is more than dipping your toe in the water; this is putting your whole foot in, this is wading into your waist. And the water’s cold. So most leave it to their toe. …
2 weeks ago
Your Best Time
Your best time is the time that everything will forever be compared to. Forevermore, you will fight to beat and surpass it. Maybe you will, maybe you won’t. You might share it; many do, just as many don’t. Why? Because it’s their best time; it doesn’t need to be shared. Your Best Time is forever yours and yours to do with as you see fit. Surpass it, share it, hide it, admire it, let it rest, brag about it, don’t talk about it, leave it or forget it. It’s Yours to do with as you please. Want more? Check out …
2 weeks ago
Take a Leap
Not a Hike. Not a Jump. Take a Leap, take a chance, do the thing that you’re not sure if you should do, and go for it. Any way you slice it, you always win with a Leap – you learn, you grow, you fall down, you pick yourself up, and you go again. If you haven’t taken a leap lately, maybe that’s what’s really bugging you. 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.