8 hours ago
Craftsmanship vs the Factory
1 day ago
Stopping to Learn is the Worst Decision
2 days ago
Too Many Tickets is Not the Problem
3 days ago
Unfurling the Sails
4 days ago
The Continued Value of Demos
5 days ago
The Secret to Climbing Ladders
6 days ago
Want to get better at Drawing Hands?
3 weeks ago
Build and Wait
3 weeks ago
Finding Opportunities
3 weeks ago
Where does the time go?
8 hours ago
Everyone wants craftsmanship for factory prices. But craftsmanship isn’t built in a factory, so the two are always on opposite sides of the coin. The factory delivers the volume the craftsman can’t, but will never evolve into the delivery of a craft. You can be the factory or the craftsman; both are solid, but you can’t be both. You can be a craftsman who delivers at factory scale with work similar to your craft, but never will be. Pick one, move forward, stop trying to be both. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as …
1 day ago
Stopping to Learn is the Worst Decision
Greg Thomas
The worst decision you make in the age of AI, is stopping to learn. And we’re going to need people to understand when the best option is to do 1, 2, or 3. The only people who will be able to answer that question are those who keep learning. 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
Too Many Tickets is Not the Problem
Greg Thomas
Knowing what the tickets are and having to manage them? That’s always been the problem. If I could have my perfect dev system. Each week (or even day), it would leave a comment in a ticket why I did not work on something or what I did thinking about it. But no effort from me, just knowledge transfer – I thought and designed something here for an hour, I didn’t get to it because I had these other 5 things to do. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on …
3 weeks ago
Where does the time go?
If you’re busy, it goes into work. If you’re sitting around, it goes into your phone. If you have a plan, work gets chipped away. If you’re overloaded, it goes into wondering how you are going to get it all done. If you’re underloaded, it goes into dreaming of when you can be overloaded again. If you’re relaxed, it goes into the pursuit of your many hobbies. And if you’re bored, you’re probably wondering what do with all this time. The point is it all goes somewhere, but we will never see what that there is, but just trust that …
1 month ago
I’m Just Getting Started
This is your response to turning in your best work. Leave them knowing this isn’t the best; this is the starting to point to get to more. 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.
Tracking It
I waver between tracking everything and then nothing. I can’t lie, I like seeing the stats and the progress – I’m a sucker for charts – and I like tracking my process in goals and tracking. And sometimes there reaches a point where I’m too busy, and I don’t track it. And then I start again. Some would call this lack of consistency or focusing on priorities. Whatever the case, I know I’ll start again once I get out of the busy season, but for now – I’ll focus on getting the work done and come back to it. All …