Month: July 2026

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

I Sent it to You

The most passive sentence ever uttered when someone says “they don’t have it”. What this really means… I probably haven’t, but I didn’t read it. I’m overloaded and have no time to read it. I saw it, but chose to ignore it for other priorities. I don’t use that medium, so there is no value in it going there. Take your pick, ask the receiver which category they fall into, and then figure out your next step from there in how to work with them. “I Sent it to you” isn’t a path to making things better.

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Shackleton’s Journey

One of the first leadership books I ever read was “Leading at the Edge” which centered around Shackleton’s journey to the Antarctic under horrific conditions while keeping his team together and alive. The copy I have is older than this one, but here it is if you haven’t read it. I stumbled across it, found it on a shelf at work one late night, and brought it home to read – one of the best leadership books I’ve ever read. So it was pretty cool to see this expedition to find his shipwreck here, after all those years, where his

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

How do you measure Productivity?

By how much do you produce, and what do you accomplish? Look, it’s not a rocket science type of goal, you do work, you are productive. You don’t do work; you are not productive. Don’t make it complicated, but make sure you’re always using that metric. Doing work and delivering at the end of the week, means you were productive.

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Skewed Adjective AI Analysis

Presentation and design have never, and will never, be my strong suit. I very much like doing all my research, gathering my notes and content, and handing it off to AI to “prettify”. Make some great infographics. Make that slide deck sing. Take my markerboard diagrams and point out the flaws. Use a consistent colour palette. All of it, yes, please. But the most annoying part is all the adjectives that get thrown around my work and other points that skew a decision, simply because I was asking a lot of questions on that one topic. Objective Analysis still holds

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

But what do you Own?

I had to buy a software product last week that cost $65 – not bad – I know it’s a great product, I’ve used it in the past for many years, and I’m happy to pay for the upgrade and get a new version. I read the initial purchase agreement wrong and signed up for a monthly subscription for $20/month – so $240/year for a product I use a smattering of times because I’ll get some new content. Immediately, I cancelled and then dug through their website to find the license and the thing I actually wanted. Found it bought,

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