6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Playing at the Level You want to be At

If you want to play at the level you want to be at, you’re going to have to show up the way they do. Know the work. Know the industry. Know the team. Know the deliverables. And if you don’t know all those things, then you’re going to have to get learning to get up to speed. If you don’t want to do that work, that’s fine; you’re not ready to play at that level and can try again later.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Let’s Begin

You can sit all day in meetings, and work through the good, the bad, and the ugly, and keep doing that day after day after day. Or you can start and see what happens. I vote for starting.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Rules Change

The rules change, and they aren’t always fair. In which case, you have two options – complain and stay still, or accept, keep moving forward, and push your own change from within. Nothing is set in stone; everything you think is set in stone is not. The Internet changed that, and AI is changing it again. Rules change and evolve, don’t fight it, embrace it.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Can you do it all?

Probably? Maybe? Doubtful. So do you delegate? Accept less? Quit Quietly? Perhaps you want to do it all, maybe you need to do it all, but the truth is that you can’t do it all.  That realization can come too soon, or very late, where feelings of regret and failure seep in. What’s important is the moment you have this question pop into your head, you realize you can’t do it all, and you shift and adjust from there. That is the only way you’ll move forward; otherwise, you’ll be putting out fires every day and never growing.  Those who

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Paying for the Right Answer

AI has cracked the “Getting the Answer” Code. Upgrade to Max Subscription. Get the Plus Package. Purchase the next Tier. Sign up for our best response. Yes, imagine that, to get the best answers from AI, you have to pay for it! Just last night, I was working through a coding problem with ChatGPT and was downgraded to their lower model, where the answers got worse, redundant, and started going in a circular fashion.  Even when I said stop, it got going (like someone who doesn’t want to give up). But if I upgrade, I get the better answer package.