Month: July 2019

July 3, 2019

Greg Thomas

Knowing who you want to work with

That whole, finding a great team to work with and surrounding yourself with great people thing. You don’t need to wait for it to happen, you don’t need to let someone choose for you. You can buy someone a coffee. You can join a user group. You can start your own online community. You can make your own league or start your own team. It doesn’t just apply to your work, it applies to everything and anyone around you. It’s all up to you and if you are able to make that decision early on in your life that the

July 2, 2019

Greg Thomas

What Ad Blockers Do

I started using an AdBlocker in Chrome a few months ago. It’s not that I was driven mad by Ads and felt a sudden surge of anger within me to use them and “protect” myself from them or anything. It just happened. And when I started to use them a few things started happening; Popups on all those sites to “buy” an ad-free plan to access their site. Popups telling me that they need the ads to survive. The numbers In answer to these; Who is buying this and why? This is the old negative billing scams that happened before.

July 1, 2019

Greg Thomas

Take the Hit

Stay on the current path, assume no risk, never grow, but always be safe. Or take the hit. Forgo the billing for two weeks to work on that new idea. Take a leap into a different job category to learn more about an emerging technology. Volunteer to learn something new. Take less vacation. Whatever it is, take the hit. We grow through taking hits, by trying something new, by taking the hard path, by getting up when we fall down. We stay the same when we do none of the above, taking none of the risks. Take the Hit.

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