Articles for category: Drive

July 31, 2024

Greg Thomas

New Keyboards

I’m picky about my keyboards. I don’t like when they are too loud. The formatting of the fingers are very important (a year ago I switched to the Natural keyboards and love them). If possible, minimum lighting is preferred (only on the pesky lock buttons), everything else can be dark. And that’s all they need to do because that is all I need or want from a keyboard. When I buy a new keyboard I like, I buy two of them so when one goes (and sadly, they all go), I have a spare one on hand so I can

July 24, 2024

Greg Thomas

Replacement Parts

It is incredibly frustrating to replace a thing that’s about to break with newer parts only have it to not work as well as it did. Maybe it was time, wear and tear or simply the way things were glued together – but they worked – and now that they’ve been touched they don’t. Sometimes you leave the things that are working, working because they keep humming along and getting the job done. Sometimes you don’t need the shiniest parts to show how cool it looks, it just needs to work.

July 17, 2024

Greg Thomas

Hold your own Accountability

The only person that will hold you to your commitments is you. Everyone else is hoping you get them done, wanting you to get them done, but they can’t make you do them. Your commitments are your accountability and it’s all on you what you decide to do with them. Accountability is a slow-burn, you don’t get a gold star for one commitment, but each time you hit a commitment, you hit that goal, you do what you’re going to say – well it might not be a gold start, but the trust and belief from people in what they

July 15, 2024

Greg Thomas

Do we still Workshop?

I haven’t workshopped in a few years. Haven’t had the opportunity to get together with people in a room, ad-hoc, and workshop a problem. It’s something that gets scheduled now, gets pushed out, and gets delayed. And yet, when there is a problem at hand, it’s the most powerful tool that we have to use. “Let’s get in a room now and discuss” – I miss hearing that.

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