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No One Likes to Run
1 day ago
The Brick
2 days ago
Finding a Process Champion
3 days ago
The Idea Matrix of Your Team
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The More You Know
5 days ago
The Direction of AI
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Generating Meeting Value
1 week ago
You can build it in 2 Minutes
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Take that Thinking Time
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The Learning Rhythm
Starting is easy, but midway through, something starts to hurt. Just when you think you’ve mastered a distance, you add on a few more, thinking it will be nothing and hurt even more. Figuring out your pace is hard; some days you are on fire, other days you’re way behind. To improve, you need to show up every day. It’s not only about running, mixing in biking and hills can help, but they aren’t always running, it’s something else. If you’re running for fun, that’s great, but most people have a goal in mind, and reaching that goal can be …
1 day ago
The Brick
Greg Thomas
The brick is heavy, and when you drop it, it hits the floor, and pieces chip off, but it’s still together. The functions of a brick are limited; it can be used to build something, although without mortar, it would fall over. Carrying it is heavy, and it weighs you down. It needs more to become something useful; it needs mortar, it needs precision, it needs levelling, and other bricks. And once altogether, it becomes something useful. By itself, not so great, but when together, awesomeness. Don’t be a brick, when you could work with a team and be awesome. …
2 days ago
Finding a Process Champion
Greg Thomas
Believe in the Process. Trust the Process. These are all good; these all make sense, as long as someone is a Champion of the Process and able to evangelize it in a way that makes people want to stay on board, makes them want to learn more, leaves them hungry with questions to ask. You need someone to lead the process for people to follow it; without someone to lead it, no one will follow it. The proof? How many times have you read the installation manual before trying to install whatever it is you’re working on? Want your process …
1 week ago
The Learning Rhythm
When you slip into the learning rhythm, it feels like time has stopped. You’re in the zone, and nothing is impossible. Instead of it being an arduous task, it’s the direction to your future career laid out right in front of you. It’s not easy getting into the rhythm, because it takes humbling and failing – more than we care to admit – but when it works, then we’re on fire, and the rhythm goes from being here and there to being a constant part of your life that everything leaps from. Want more? Check out my book Code Your …
2 weeks ago
The Backup Drive Habit
Yes, I still use Backup Drives for files. Not regularly, but every now and then, I get a random thought – “Oh, I should back that up”. Setting up a new computer, I back up to the cloud, but also to a local drive… because hey… local drives have never failed, right (they have)? Someone younger than me who never used external drives probably doesn’t use them, but for my generation, going from 1.44 MB to 1 TB in your hand was power incarnate and always gave you that security blanket of – “if something goes wrong I still have …
2 weeks ago
Two Approaches to Blisters
You can bandage them up and keep going; yes, they will irritate and eventually pop. You can wait for them to go away, however long that takes. One is pragmatic and pushes you back at the worry of further injury, one pushes the envelope, lets the skin heal over and harden. Whatever approach you take is up to you, but clearly, you need new shoes to prevent it from happening again. 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 …