Month: November 2026

9 hours ago

Greg Thomas

This is How I do it

When someone says “this is how I do it” – they aren’t asking for input; they are definitely not asking for advice or feedback on how they do their job. They are simply saying, “This is how I do it,” and the corollary, which is “Deal with it.” They don’t say the “Deal with it,” but it’s implied, and you need to figure out how to work around it or with it. It’s an odd statement, because anyone can pull up an AI agent and ask for the best path to do a job, and 70% of the time, there

10 hours ago

Greg Thomas

The Ownership in Your Work

If it breaks, it’s on you. If it looks like you copied it from AI without your own context, you copied it from AI without your own context. If it’s sloppy, you wrote it. If it doesn’t work, you built it. Things don’t always go the way we want in our work, but the level of effort and commitment that we invest is always, entirely up to us. Sloppy, Lazy, cut-and-paste work is a signal of our investment and commitment. You can own and make it more, or leave it and hope no one cares. The thing about ownership, which

1 day ago

Greg Thomas

The Leaders You Need

Give them grace to make mistakes when they try their best. Give them space to try out new ideas even though you know it might fail. Give them a path that shows what they could become. Give them the tools to accomplish their goals and learn at the same time. Let them walk before they can run. When they put their hands on the stove, remind them it could burn. Raise them up when they are down. Don’t speak for them; let them and their work do that. These are the leaders we need, and they are also the leaders

2 days ago

Greg Thomas

I Don’t Know is the Best Answer

I’ve been running a number of interviews lately, and I’m amazed at how everyone has some type of answer to a question. And sadly, in most cases they are wrong; they are bad answers, and if I’m feeling curious that day, I might keep poking and prodding to see how much I can make your AI hallucinate during the interview. The best candidate I interviewed over the past week asked to use a pencil and paper to draw out the problem and answered a few questions with “I don’t know”. Everything else was solid; he didn’t know it all. No

3 days ago

Greg Thomas

Your Best Team Culture

Your team culture doesn’t start and end with a presentation or workshop – it starts the next day. It grows and improves each and every other day from there – as long as you hold true to what you want to accomplish. As soon as you fall back on old habits and practices, the culture falls apart because “If they don’t have to do it, why should I?” Some teams grow an organic culture, and this works; most need a direction, a path, a discussion to move forward. Balance your discussions; weeks and weeks of discussion with no action is

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