11 hours ago
No One Person is the Meeting
1 day ago
Worth the Travel?
2 days ago
Training an LLM for a Marathon
3 days ago
Your First Meeting
4 days ago
One thing AI will never be able to do
5 days ago
How about Fixing Traffic?
6 days ago
I got Skillzzzz
1 week ago
Who Generated this Code?
1 week ago
What Meetings Do I need to be In?
1 week ago
The Strategy Session
11 hours ago
If one person cannot attend the meeting, you need to cancel the meeting. The meeting should then be about why that one person is so critical to the meeting and what we need to do to remove that dependency. A meeting of one is only good for the one. 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.
1 day ago
Worth the Travel?
Greg Thomas
Is your work worth the travel? Is what you are getting out of it – paycheck, experience, knowledge, teaching, training worth the travel? Does it get you all of those things or just some? Is it worth more in the long run vs the short run? If it takes 2 hours to get there, but you get compensated with meals, does that make up for the travel time? What if you need to stay late on Wednesdays? The only person you can decide whether your job is worth the travel is you; you’re the only one who can make that …
Training an LLM for a Marathon
Greg Thomas
Training a Language Learning Model is much easier than training to run a marathon. You assemble your data, you set your parameters (depending on the scope, you do a bunch of other things), and then you click “Train”. And it runs, for however long it needs to run, it runs. It does its job, you walk away and let it work, let it run, let it train. Everything we do today is not nearly as clean or as easy as clicking the “train” button – if it were, I’d be selecting different models and hitting “train” all the time. Want …
1 week ago
The Strategy Session
Daily meetings are tactics – what are we doing today, what did we do yesterday, where am I stuck? Everyone on the project attends and has their say. The Strategy session happens once a week. It’s not for everyone; it’s for the leadership, and it asks a different set of questions Are we moving in the right direction? Are we tracking towards our goal? What is holding the team back? How do we help? Strategy sessions need all the leadership there to make decisions and determine next steps for the week that will filter down to daily meetings. When done …
1 week ago
Ecosystems Aren’t Built
Ecosystems evolve; they aren’t built. The frog, the lake, the bugs, the fish – they didn’t just get together one day and decide to jive and make a system. They evolved into it, one begat the other, something was enticing that spurned interest. Over time, it grew and evolved. Ecosystems don’t evolve overnight either; it takes time. As much as we don’t want it to take time, it does, it always will, there is no way around it. That’s the beauty of an ecosystem, always evolving, always growing, no start, no end – it just happens over time. Want …
2 weeks ago
Now is the Time to Learn
There has never been a more important time to always be learning. I don’t know if there ever will (maybe when we get transporters). Each day, come out with something new – it doesn’t have to generate mass revenue and hockey stick growth in a day. It might not even pay off today. But in the next month, three months, or six, it will pay off. Now is the time to learn, schedule it, make it part of your daily cadence. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon …