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The Secret to Climbing Ladders
23 hours ago
Want to get better at Drawing Hands?
2 weeks ago
Build and Wait
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Finding Opportunities
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Where does the time go?
4 weeks ago
I’m Just Getting Started
4 weeks ago
Tracking It
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Gearing up for Winter
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The No Meeting Meeting
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Every Day, Something New
8 hours ago
Focus on moving up; don’t look back. Do the job, focus on what matters most. When done, head back down. Don’t get distracted; keep your mind on the task at hand, and avoid any and all distractions. Applies to using a ladder to paint or screwing in a lightbulb and also career growth. 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.
23 hours ago
Want to get better at Drawing Hands?
Greg Thomas
Draw more hands. (The same applies to any other guidance on a thing you are looking to improve at). 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 weeks ago
Build and Wait
Greg Thomas
When shrink-wrapped software was the game, you built it, you put it on a CD, you let your sales and marketing teams took over. And you waited. And if the sales weren’t coming in, you made the call to make the next version, put it out the door, do more sales and marketing. And wait again. The first version never sells well, there is more waiting then anyone wants to admit, but eventually programs, funnels, plans, actions, blogs and patience and luck come together. But don’t fool yourself if someone tells you otherwise; there is always a wait in anything …
4 weeks ago
Every Day, Something New
When you think you have it, 10 minutes later there is a post about something undoing what you have just spent the last few days trying to master. It can be demoralizing that the thing you figured out is now gone and replaced. But maybe everyone hasn’t seen it. Or maybe, based on their environment, they cannot even use it. Whatever the case, don’t downgrade your learning, the work you put in, the effort you went to get there – just because someone took what you learned and made it faster. “If it was that simple, everyone would be doing …
1 month ago
The Inversion of your work
I watched Jim Lee do this incredible drawing on YouTube once of Magneto. It all started from his hand, where it’s white, nothing but a blank page, but every line and shadow emerges from that clean and white component as crisp as the page he started on. From there, everything inherits and extends from. It’s an inversion of work – nothing had to be done in that one spot, but around it, everything sprang from it to create an incredible masterpiece. No other comments, just beyond impressive. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as …
1 month ago
It Doesn’t Work the Way I Thought
Great, figure out another way to make it work. This has been the problem that programmers and developers have been faced with for years and years on end. API is more limited than they thought. Overuse and you get throttled. Data is hoarded instead of shared. Capabilities are limited without lots of workarounds. Great, it doesn’t work the way you thought; the absolutely amazing part of your journey starts to happen. Go make it work the way you thought. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and …