Articles for category: Drive

Being Ready for Demand

You don’t get to pick when your work is wanted or your skills are in demand. If you (or we) could do that, there would never be unemployment, and for the most part, everyone would be an entrepreneur. You CAN see where currents are heading. You CAN see what is shaping an industry. You CAN extrapolate what is needed today and from that what will be needed tomorrow. The goal then becomes to get ready for what comes next today, so you’re ready for it tomorrow. Today is gone, but tomorrow is waiting.

Trick or Treat

The Trick – takes seconds to show, but hours, days, weeks, maybe even months to master. The Treat – is a quick ask – can I have something for nothing? The trick can get you a bigger treat than if you just asked because people will always recognize the work that went into it. Or sometimes you’ll get just the treat. You can ask for something and hope you get your worth, or show your value and get it.

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

Bold, Italtic and Underline

These three formatting options have permeated our usage across all apps. Building a word editor?  Better have B, I, and U as functions. Will there ever be a fourth option that will become as pervasive as this one? There have been pretenders – semi-bold, heavy-bold, double-line, dotted-line – but nothing has come close to challenging the originals. Will we ever discard one over the other? Unknown at this time.

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Fastest Way

Want to go faster in your work? Get prepared, see the target, figure out the steps to get there, and go faster. There is no “go fast” button. There is prep, work, time, and effort. AI has been around for 5 – 7 years (even longer), but has exploded in the last 2 years. And now it is going fast. But to get there, it was prep, tests, failures, work, hard work, and now it’s going fast. Now it’s a wave that took time to build. You don’t win the 100-meter dash by turning on the “fast” button; you train,

Idea Nation

You can stare at your screen and hope that inspiration comes at you – strikes you like a lightning bolt, fills you with the energy to move forward, and implement at never-ending speed. And you can wait for that idea that no one has (that you can’t prove that no one has). Or you can start working on what you have in your head now and see where it takes you. It might not become something, it might not garner a billion-dollar valuation, but it might be something that has value to some, and they didn’t know they needed it