11 hours ago
The Perfect Update
2 days ago
Onboarding Quickly is a Skill
3 days ago
The Dying Seconds
4 days ago
Learning for the Team
5 days ago
The Flea Market
6 days ago
The Author’s Notes
7 days ago
AI RecursiveTechDebt
1 week ago
The Complaint Department
1 week ago
Hitting your Pace
1 week ago
AI Rest
11 hours ago
It’s simple. It’s to the point. It answers the contextual questions you know are coming. It can be digested quickly and easily, allowing people to ask the real questions. If your update is bloated, uses lots of cool words (I’m looking at you, AI), and requires loads of clarifications, you’re not giving a good update – you’re throwing spaghetti on the wall and hoping something sticks. 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.
2 days ago
Onboarding Quickly is a Skill
Greg Thomas
On any project, there is a point where adding more people will slow down the project as you seek to onboard them to the work everyone else is doing. It takes time to bring a new person up to speed – sometimes estimated in months when it needs to be a few days or weeks. If you are someone who comes up with a toolbox, learns in advance where the project is at and where the team is having trouble, and knows the tech stack (or is early learning it), your onboarding can drop to those mythical days and low-cost …
The Dying Seconds
Greg Thomas
The dying seconds are the most exciting because they are the finality of what everyone is counting down to. There is no interpretation of what is dying and what are seconds – they are constants reducing in uniform fashion down to 0. At the end, you either feel amazing, sad, perhaps hoodwinked, but if done right, you know that you gave everything to be there, in that moment. 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.
AI Rest
When my chainsaw gets too hot, I give it a rest and go off for a bit, then let it cool down before doing more work. After all, I don’t want the motor to overheat and then have to buy a whole new one and have it cost even more. Does the same apply to our AI interactions? Let AI go to town for a bit, but then put it on pause over lunch so it can cool down and come back at it? Or do we keep expanding infinitum so it is always online, all the time, consuming everything? …
Trends on Trends
Last week I was scrolling through social media and found this cool video of a guy on a kayak, tons of camera gear, catching a fish, and cooking it on the kayak. Each time it got more elaborate with what he was cooking. Then my feed popped up with someone else doing it, with a different take on the trend; they were on a jetski, zipping around and doing the same thing. Then I saw more posts that flipped the trend a bit more, as each person had to take their crack at the trend. But in the end, there …
2 weeks ago
The Bermuda Triangle
I did not grow up near the sea, but I heard about the Bermuda Triangle – that’s where stuff goes and doesn’t come back – so you never go to the Bermuda Triangle. Good to know. The truth is, a few ships disappeared there that got blown way out of proportion and became sensationalized – then we gave it a cool name and the rest is history. Something might be happening in your organization that no one knows why, so they give it a name, a thought, a concept – and it becomes bigger than it is. And then you …