13 hours ago
Team Emergence
2 days ago
I Sent it to You
7 days ago
Shackleton’s Journey
1 week ago
How do you measure Productivity?
1 week ago
Skewed Adjective AI Analysis
1 week ago
But what do you Own?
1 week ago
I’m not doing that bad am I?
2 weeks ago
The Last 10% of Any Project
2 weeks ago
Storms Expose the Cracks
2 weeks ago
I Don’t Believe in Focus Time
13 hours ago
You’re now a team until someone else jumps in. There are no teams of one, because it’s just you. When two people start doing things together, you have a start. When three people start talking through problems, you have a base. And when four people start moving in the same direction, you have an emergence. That’s a team. 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
I Sent it to You
Greg Thomas
The most passive sentence ever uttered when someone says “they don’t have it”. What this really means… I probably haven’t, but I didn’t read it. I’m overloaded and have no time to read it. I saw it, but chose to ignore it for other priorities. I don’t use that medium, so there is no value in it going there. Take your pick, ask the receiver which category they fall into, and then figure out your next step from there in how to work with them. “I Sent it to you” isn’t a path to making things better. Want more? Check …
7 days ago
Shackleton’s Journey
Greg Thomas
One of the first leadership books I ever read was “Leading at the Edge” which centered around Shackleton’s journey to the Antarctic under horrific conditions while keeping his team together and alive. The copy I have is older than this one, but here it is if you haven’t read it. I stumbled across it, found it on a shelf at work one late night, and brought it home to read – one of the best leadership books I’ve ever read. So it was pretty cool to see this expedition to find his shipwreck here, after all those years, where his …
2 weeks ago
I Don’t Believe in Focus Time
I don’t get the concept of “Focus Time” in your calendar. I.e., signalling to everyone that this is when I’ll do work because that implies that the rest of the time that I am not working. Meetings have value when done right. Calls have value when done right. Standups have value when done right. Work has value when done right. The goal is to figure out how to stay focused and deliver. Move your meetings around. Select which ones you are going to. Drop the non-value activities. Your calendar can be lightweight but have plenty of focus time. Want more? …
Code Like an Artist
Coding will always be a creative endeavour to me – forever and ever. Use a different Framework. Try out a new SDK. Connect to a new API or MCP Integrate with another platform. Use Dependency Injection. Scope your Agent. Trigger from an Event. Any and all of these can be decided and created in a variety of different ways, and they can all be done creatively and with reckless abandon. Don’t code like a machine, code like an artist. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and …
2 weeks ago
What’s Your Reset Limit
Your limit will reset unless you want to pay more money for more tokens to do more work. Or your AI can take a break. Kind of like people on your team, you can push them for a solid 3 – 4 hours and give them a break or watch their output diminish as they become more tired. Now imagine how that feels to watch, giving your AI the break and not your team. Hint: You’re giving the wrong one the break. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on …