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11 months ago

Greg Thomas

What You Wish You Had More Time to Work On

How much time do you need to work on something you want to be working on? What do you not know now, that you need to learn to be able to work on that thing? What environment do you need to be able to get the work done? These are all the questions you have to ask yourself before you get mad about “not doing the thing I want to be doing”. You might not be doing it right now, but if you’re taking the steps to get there, it’s on the horizon to getting started. No one starts in

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

Transparent Headphones

I bought these headphones almost a year ago. They are amazing. I initially bought them so they could cradle my ear and not be on my ear. But the transparent options are incredible. Many times, I don’t even listen to anything, I simple put them on so they block out everything around me. Forget your Bluetooth mouse when you’re on the road, a set of high-quality headphones should be the first thing you grab if you want to get work done, wherever you are.

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

How Best to Notify?

When it comes to notifying your users of “what it is you want to notify them about”, the implementation and medium of the notification is just as important as the notification itself. Not going to read the logs or look at the dashboard?  No need to store it anywhere. Is an immediate response required?  Text Message or Slack alert might be the best. Is having the notification as good as seeing it?  Sounds like a job for an email. Beyond the delivery, who needs to know and what they need to do with it are critical. Am I sending this

12 months ago

Greg Thomas

Is No Answer Better?

Is No Answer better than an answer? We hope it’s more akin to Schrodinger’s Cat in that there is still hope and we don’t know what we don’t know until we know it. Hope still abounds. In today’s “always on” world of having your phone everywhere, the time for Schrodinger’s Cat to exist becomes shorter and shorter than ever before. So does No Answer, in an always on world, mean something else now?  Does it mean the answer leans more towards No than towards the hope for a Yes? When you don’t get an immediate response from someone what do

12 months ago

Greg Thomas

I Finally Won!

It took 10+ attempts, but I finally won. Would I have bought them anyway?  For sure, I’m not in it for the contest or the bonus. So if you’re in regardless, and a contest or bonus isn’t going to change your level of commitment – what would? Now flip the script to your team – if they are in it and an extra 1.5% bonus isn’t going to change anything, what would? That’s the question leaders need to ask themselves when thinking of keeping their team engaged.