12 hours ago
The Correlation in Stress to Work
1 day ago
What AI Gives Zero Thought to
2 days ago
AI talking to Humans talking to AI
3 days ago
This is How I do it
3 days ago
The Ownership in Your Work
4 days ago
The Leaders You Need
5 days ago
I Don’t Know is the Best Answer
6 days ago
Your Best Team Culture
2 weeks ago
A Blistering Pace
2 weeks ago
Get Out of the Way
12 hours ago
The Stress you feel in work when things don’t go right are in direct correlation to how much you care about the work you are doing. If you could care less about the outcome, who the customer is, how it will affect them, what the end result will be or whether they will enjoy the product – you will never be stressed out. If you worry about the impact your work will make, whether your work will sit on a shelf forever or actually be used and how it will make people feel – I have bad news for you, …
What AI Gives Zero Thought to
Greg Thomas
AI does not care about optics or politics. It only cares about delivery. AI does not care about how you are feeling today. It only cares about starting the task, making adjustments to the task and finishing the task. AI does not care about who is at the water cooler and what they were talking about. It cares about who it needs to get information from for the next project to be successful. AI isn’t perfect, and it does get it wrong, but the thing it gets right is focusing on the task, what is being delivered to the end …
AI talking to Humans talking to AI
Greg Thomas
AI-masked conversations to humans are massively on the rise. A number of times over the past month, I’ll get… “Well, Claude says…” “Well, Copilot gave me this…” “Well, here is what Gemini came up with…” Yes, of course, that is what it said, but what is your spin? What is your input? What is your context to the issue at hand? Give me your flavour and thoughts around what AI came back with. Either that or just pull me into the chat with your AI. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook …
Get Out of the Way
Let your team work. You don’t need to ask them every day what they did – you need to trust them. You don’t need to check in every few moments – you need to give them time. You don’t need to prompt them for updates – you need to wait for them to come to you. They haven’t forgotten about you; they are trying to work so they can give it to you. They are not an AI Agent, so stop sending them prompts. Get out of their way, let them work; I swear you’ll be amazed. Want more? Check …
Flying Cars
Woot! Woot! Flying Cars are here; they came in my lifetime. This is great news. Love it. I still am not big on flying, so not sure I want to be strapped to an even smaller vehicle twisting and turning through the air. That’s awesome, great news. Now if only I didn’t get prompted 20 times a day by Authenticator, that would be progress. 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
What Most Architecture Designs Miss
What you build, how you design work- these things all matter when building a software solution (yes, even today in the age of AI) – because I think, for the most part, we all want our work to stand the test of time. In order for your work to stand the test of time, it needs one very important thing backing it. What is the problem you are trying to solve? If you can’t condense that down to one sentence, then it doesn’t matter what you have designed; I know you don’t understand what you are designing it for, and …