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7 months ago

Greg Thomas

Everything is Dead

On any day you’re reading the following; Every profession is dead. Small companies will be drowned out by Vibe Coded Apps Anyone writing code for more than 10 minutes is wasting their time. We are laying off people to make room to buy more machines. That’s a pretty bleary way to start your Monday morning as you try to get going for the week ahead. Everything isn’t dying, it’s changing. Vibe Coded Apps solve some problems, but like any generated code, they create their own as well. You’re not wasting your time coding for more than 10 minutes; you’re learning.

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Work You Hate To Do

Everyone has a task they don’t like to do, yes, that they hate to do. But it never goes away, it just keeps staring you in the face. So here’s the plan; Do that work, do it until it annoys. Figure out a way to get it off your plate – script it, automate it, batch it – whatever you like. Rinse and repeat with the next task you hate. The work you hate never goes away; it only gets ignored, and when it gets ignored, it doesn’t get done, and then things go sideways. Embrace the work you hate,

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Fork

I was reading this article a while back about StackOverflow’s decline in traffic over the past two years and what contributed to it. The best part was the last line, where it discussed “the Fork” – where hopefully StackOverflow isn’t dying, but it’s in the midst of a Fork to figure out what it is to do next. I feel that analogy can be applied to many in software right now.  I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about what we were up to and I said I’m gearing up for what’s next, retooling, relearning. That’s

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Shift in Team

Teams shift based on external factors – opportunities and threats. One makes them, urges them to take on more, excited for what is next. One pushes them to hide, close ranks, become insular, and worry about what may come. Every shift is an opportunity and a threat, depending on who you are and what your narrative is. The question becomes, what your team sees as a threat and what you need to do to shift them to seeing it as an opportunity.

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

Managing your Momentum

When you cycle, you often times go into a high gear to exert less power. Then, when the hills come, you drop a gear to reduce resistance. For each person, when they go up/down a gear, the level of resistance and when they change a gear is different. But regardless, they do it for the same reason – to maintain momentum.