Articles for category: Drive

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

Things You Can’t Argue With

There are many things you can argue with, but at the same time, many things you can never argue with. Someone’s effort and desire to solve a problem – let them loose. Someone’s commitment to an issue. Someone’s dedication. Someone’s consistency. Someone’s drive or initiative. These are things you can’t argue with; they might be going in the wrong direction or require guidance, but you can’t argue with them because with them, this person is showing how much they care. Arguing with them, coming down on them, will only serve to slow down and stop their effort, when that is

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Coding Conundrum

There are ways to fix your problems. I can do it fast by getting vibe coding it- and it will look nice, but may not scale. I can do it with no code, but I might be limited by how far I can take it with the features made available to me; it probably won’t look as nice as if I’d Vibe Coded, as it will be following a structured template. I can code it myself; this might take longer and scale, and I will still need to build a UX on top of it. This is where code is

9 months ago

Greg Thomas

Data vs the Computer

In Star Trek lore, Data (the Android) was the next logical level step in evolution from Spock. (Stay with me, I know we’re entering new territory). You can’t get more logical than Spock than being a computer with no emotions. But when you watch Star Trek, they still had work to do, they still had problems to solve – Data didn’t know all the answers. AI is great, it saves time and helps us incredibly, but don’t make it your slop bucket – let it free you up for more important tasks, like saving the galaxy. If your old job

9 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Worth of Your Work

Only a few people know the value of your work, the expert being you. Whether you’re salaried, part-time, or contract – your worth, what you deliver, what your work says about you never changes. You can turn in the same slop that AI can produce, quickly, without review, based on your first prompt. Or you can sit there, refine it, tweak it, validate answers, and demonstrate the value that you deliver that goes beyond quick and easy. The game hasn’t changed, who you are competing with, and the hype and media they have behind them has.

9 months ago

Greg Thomas

It’s Good to Be Bad at Something

You don’t have to be an MVP, Guru, Expert, Ninja, Rocksart, or Master at everything you do. You can try something new and be bad at it. You can be downright horrible at it. And you can still enjoy it. The goal isn’t to be the best at everything and anything. The goal is to enjoy what you are doing. And you can’t be great at everything.

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