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This Looks Like a Good Problem to Solve
1 day ago
No One Person is the Meeting
2 days ago
Worth the Travel?
3 days ago
Training an LLM for a Marathon
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Your First Meeting
5 days ago
One thing AI will never be able to do
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How about Fixing Traffic?
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I got Skillzzzz
1 week ago
Who Generated this Code?
1 week ago
What Meetings Do I need to be In?
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Often when I’m working through problems, I’ll find another one that looks good to solve. It’s very akin to when you’re putting up a shelf – oh yeah, it needs to be level, I want it screwed into a stud, I want the screws hidden – and this then breeds things like – oh wait, the wall has a bend in it, I need to account for it, or the studs don’t line up as they should. Some of these problems you need to fix now, others can wait (studs in the wrong place) – you have to choose what …
1 day ago
No One Person is the Meeting
Greg Thomas
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.
2 days 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 …
1 week ago
What Meetings Do I need to be In?
You only ever need to be in the meetings that you actively contribute to. If you are not contributing to the meeting, you do not need to be there. If the reason you are there is so people can do their job, then you are using your meetings to solve a very different problem that cannot be solved by you being in a meeting. Take a run of your calendar and eliminate everything you don’t contribute to. If you’re missed, they will reach out; chances are, you’ll get some time back in your day. Want more? Check out my book …
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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 …
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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 …