February 23, 2025

Greg Thomas

Questions on Questions

Are you asking questions to learn more? Are you asking questions to poke holes? Are you asking questions to figure things out? Are you asking questions to find fault? Questions are the best way to figure out what is going on and what you need to be doing.  When it comes to learning, we don’t ask them enough. How many times in grade school did you have a question and not want to ask because you were afraid of how you looked? How dare you not understand what was being taught to you in the last 10 minutes for the first

Shipping Your Product

What product are you shipping? Is it your code?  Your writing?  Your art? It probably isn’t what you think it is and/or at least not in the tangible form that you would associate with being a typical product. It’s something more, something bigger. Your value. Your integrity. Your work ethic. Your drive. Your delivery. Your initiative. Maybe it’s all these, maybe it’s more – but that’s your product, that’s what you’re shipping, that’s what people are looking for you to ship and wanting to see from you every day. Because you ship your product, each and every day, that’s how

February 21, 2025

Greg Thomas

Who Viewed Your Profile

You didn’t care before so does it matter now? Even if it’s “someone from here looked at your profile”. Does it matter? Someone from somewhere looked at a piece of your profile that is somewhere on the main page of all of the accomplishments and work you have done over the years. Did they zero in on anything? Did anything speak to them? Or was it nothing more than a keyword? A targeted search? A verb? Don’t get fooled into making your profile about someone else looking at it – keep making it for yourself, for what you want to

February 20, 2025

Greg Thomas

Cold Walks

Want to break out of your meeting “blahs” or get a problem completely out of your head? Go for a walk – a cold walk – a walk so cold that your face is freezing and all you can think about is getting back to working on that problem you were trying to escape from. A walk where all you can think about is your face freezing and how warm your mitts truly are. I don’t do these types of walks all the time (they are too cold) – but it’s a great way to break out of the funk

Recyling Ideas

I see it with other bloggers, I see it with my own writing. I’ll have a spark of a great idea, start writing the draft, and then see that I wrote about it before with that elusive “-2” added to the post URL. I used to get bummed out “I stole my idea” but not anymore. I write the post, I push it out and only then do I go back and look at what I had previously written. Sometimes it’s the same, sometimes it expands on what I previously wrote, the odd time it goes in a completely different