Month: June 2026

7 hours ago

Greg Thomas

You’re Halfway There

I wrote about this thing called Craptivity, many years ago. It’s when you’re past the point of having started something, and you’re deep in the learning, training, iterating, and failing. It’s when you’re falling over yourself to learn but can’t seem to get out. It’s the hardest part of learning, because at that ebb, is where many people abandon the path of learning – because why stay there when I don’t feel great. But if you hang in there, stay there, iterate, make adjustments, that’s when you will come out stronger and better for it. Lots of time is left.

1 day ago

Greg Thomas

Missed One

The schedule broke last week, and many routines broke (something AI cannot fix unless you want it to look at my past writings and write something). But now the schedule has been fixed, and we’re back. And by schedule, I mean me. I didn’t write anything, had a number of other items to work on, and that was the week. Now it’s time to reset and revisit.

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

Complacency is a Pain to Clean Up

For the past few years, I’ve waged a war with mice at our cabin, essentially trying to keep them out of our crawlspace storage area. It’s not a perfect setup, but it’s necessary, and for a few years, I thought I was winning the war – they were staying away, never coming back. But this year, they all ganged up on me, and they launched a counteroffensive (or at least I like to imagine they all had a huddle and got together to come at me). And did they ever, laying waste to everything in our storage area (emphasis on

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

Everything Takes Effort

That’s it. Everything. Everything takes effort. Learning. Prompting. Drawing. Designing. Leading. Managing. Writing. Cleaning. Refactoring. Everything, everything takes some required level of effort to come together and be something of usefulness. There is no “unefforted” thing that we want that doesn’t contain some level of value. It all takes effort, so roll up your sleeves and dive in.

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