Articles for category: Drive

April 13, 2025

Greg Thomas

Showing Your Work

It’s getting harder to show your work. What are you going to show when asking a question to a search engine? Your question? What about ChatGPT? Your prompt? Work is important, it matters, but showing what you are working on, and how you are arriving at your answer is changing. The question of how you got to that answer needs to change as well. I tried this, then I tried that, I didn’t agree with all of it, so I dug deeper, then I thought of this, then I asked someone for help and then I got here. Showing your

April 11, 2025

Greg Thomas

What’s Next?

What’s your next job? What’s your next project? What’s your next task? What’s the next goal you want to achieve? What’s the next vacation I’m going to take? Everyone needs a “What’s Next?”, not because you need to overload yourself and never take a break but rather because you need to have something to look forward to, something that can give you something to look forward to. The next is what drives us forward, and keeps us moving forward.

April 10, 2025

Greg Thomas

Gut It

Ever looked at a project and thought – “This is a gut job”? Take it right down to the bare bones, save nothing, and start all over again, from the foundation up? It’s our first instinct when something is wrong – “Let me rebuild it the way I would do it.” But what we often forget when it comes to the Gut Jobs; The overages (because they will happen). Living through it (because you will have to). Getting to where you are now (because you do want to ship at some point). The toll it will take (not only on

April 1, 2025

Greg Thomas

Embrace the Calamity

Everything can and will go wrong. Your plans will go sideways. The idea you had to build on a platform, that platform went bust. What you thought would work, will no longer work. The API interface you are building against will be deprecated in 3 months. You can either rant and rave about the situation you’re in, about everything going wrong, or you can embrace the calamity and chart a new path. Five years ago, many companies, organizations, and people charted new paths when calamity was all around them.

March 29, 2025

Greg Thomas

How Was Your Day?

Instead of waiting till the end of the day to ask this question or have this question to be asked of yourself, let’s rephrase it and retime it. At the beginning of the day – “How do you want your day to be?” Start there, take 5 minutes, how do you want to answer this question at the end of the day? Now make that your day. Make your day, don’t let it happen to you.

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