Month: June 2024

June 10, 2024

Greg Thomas

New Skills = New Frustrations = New Growth

When learning new skills, you will experience new frustrations. If you give up, you will never get to growth. If you keep pushing forward, you will eventually get past the frustration point and you will experience growth. I’ve always called this point of frustration Craptivity, if you stick with it you’ll succeed and get better.  It won’t happen overnight, but it’s the sticking with it where everyone falls off. But it doesn’t matter how old you get, new skills, equal new frustrations, will always lead to new growth.

June 9, 2024

Greg Thomas

Don’t sacrifice your Learning for AI Speed

If I asked AI to draw me a picture in the style I wanted it drawn, the only thing I’d learn about drawing is how to ask AI to do something for me and pass it off as my own. AI can help, very well, with repetitive tasks, but with the ones that you need to learn, that will help you grow and reach that next level, AI cannot replace your own learning. And the learning is where your growth occurs so if you’re offboarding your learning to AI, the only “thing” getting better is AI.  The learning is where

June 8, 2024

Greg Thomas

How Much do you Know?

Does it matter? If you don’t know enough can you figure it out? If you can’t figure it out, do you know who to ask? When things go sideways are you going to stop or keep pushing into it? The question isn’t how much you know, but how much desire and drive you have to learn to know.  

June 7, 2024

Greg Thomas

Overly Complex Configurations

Any piece of software has a set of configurations, toggles, and switches that make it come alive. The configuration is what makes the software work for your customer and makes it “their own, unique copy”. Four things a configuration should always have; A place to go and make the change, not forcing the customer to jump here, there, and everywhere. Settings that do what they are supposed to do. Be simple in their implementation, if it can be explained simply by the developer, the end user will never be able to consume it. Work. The worst thing is when a

June 6, 2024

Greg Thomas

Knowing when to Shift

Cars shift. If you’re driving standard, it’s a more pronounced shift, you need to initiate it, otherwise, the engine keeps revving. The persistent revving of the engine is the cue for you to know when to shift, you know by the sound that it can’t maintain its push unless you shift to a higher gear. Knowing when to shift, either yourself or your team is critical to growth and not as simple to determine as a car.  Figuring out when your team needs to shift is one of the most important jobs of any leader – it’s what ensures measured,

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