Articles for category: Growth

You’re Not Winning

But you’re not losing either. You just haven’t won that “thing” you’re after. That’s it, you’re not there yet, but you’re on the right path. When you connect, I don’t know, heck, I don’t even know when I’ll connect. But you’re not losing, you just haven’t won yet. Or so the speech goes.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Raptured by the Masters

I went to a workshop a few months ago, which wasn’t tech-focused; it was with an artist I had never met before or had ever seen their work. It was an “Illustrated Talk” – when I got there, everyone was pulling out sketchbooks, and when the talk began, a few took a combination of notes and pictures (which was pretty cool to see). I think I stood out like a sore thumb with my laptop (not opened) and like a psycho, I sat there just listening – enraptured by the content. For the next hour, I gleaned so many useful

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

AI has solved Scope Creep

Remember all those memes about “one more change” for developers when building a product? Scope creep is the number one killer for any project; it’s always one more this, always one more that – there is always one more thing to do to make it perfect. Good news, AI solved the problem. They charge you for how many prompts you ask, and how many credits you have purchased to be able to consider those changes. AI took the biggest developer problem and applied the simplest solution to it – a pay wall. Huzzah for AI!

6 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,

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Race to the Bottom

Throw a ball in the air, and it drops like a rock, picking up speed as it reaches the ground.  Depending on how much gravity is applied, the rock will crash into little pebbles, a shell of its former self. End what I know about science and gravity. But right now, in our work, we are in a race to the bottom, and many are taking advantage of it. Yes, AI can produce much more than I can in minutes. But I’m always refactoring it. Yes, AI can search the world, providing me with all the answers to my questions I