Articles for category: Drive

March 12, 2021

Greg Thomas

Prioritize Your Thoughts

We have so many ideas, directions, thoughts, running through our heads at any one point in time. Forget the phone, my brain is what is making me want to close my eyes and figure out what to do! On top of all this, we have the incoming priorities of the world, country, province and everything else coming at us that many times we are reading articles and having to draw matrix lines between what someone said here to how it maps over to here. And we haven’t even entered in the office where we still struggle with how to effectively

March 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Jumping In

When starting a new book series, or a new game – do you go through all the myriad of titles and expansions that came before it so you can “understand” what is happening now? To play a Call of Duty or Fortnite game, did you need to play every other game before it so you can know everything there is before starting? No, one it would be costly, two it would probably be a bit boring (let’s be honest), as you force yourself through all these old games and consoles. Then why do this with a new project? The beauty

March 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

Time to Turf the Green Icon

If you’re still sitting down at your desk and checking to see who is “Green” and ready to go. You’re missing the point. I wrote about this early in the Pandemic when everyone went remote – Forget the Green Icon – because immediately I saw people staring down that icon and using it as the primary barometer to see whether their teams were contributing. The truth behind those icons, they are aggregates or estimates on what is happening on those devices. There are APIs and SDKs that let you program what state you want to be in and you as

March 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

You’re always Catching Up

I wrote this on Impostor Syndrome awhile ago. You know what it is right? That feeling of being somewhere you don’t belong but wanting so bad to be there and yet you are filled with this feeling of not belonging and being found out… to be a… gasp… “Impostor”. It’s incredibly reminiscent of the game “Among Us” where the goal of the game is to root out the Impostor (because they are trying to kill you). As long as you aren’t malicious, misleading or lying to people, you’re not an Impostor, you’re simply learning, in the best way possible –

February 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Snow Days

What is it about a Snow Day that makes us go crazy with relief? Everything we had planned suddenly shifts beneath us and the day seems filled with possibilities? We become rejuvenated (even if we go back to bed) mentally as though nothing can stop us, hold us back or push us down. We feel invincible and now everything that seemed out of reach is now within it. And all becomes of some nice-looking precipitation? Whatever it is, the question we need to ask ourselves – is how can we start with that question every… single… day.