Articles for category: Growth

September 13, 2024

Greg Thomas

Making Waves

Little waves lap at your feet. You can kick back at them. They don’t stop you. Big waves force you to hold your own, to stagger your footing, to withstand the wave as it hits you. Kicking back, you lose your balance and fall. Now, jumping into the wave – whether it’s going over it or under it – it might not work the first time.  You might get tripped up. But it’s better than waiting for it to come to you.  

September 10, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Unknowable Route

There is a path, you haven’t been on it before, others have, to you it’s unknowable. It’s not the way you would do it. It’s not how you would word it. It goes against how you’ve done things in the past. It flips the script. All these reasons and more… are the reason you need to do it. The Unknowable Route is the one where you don’t know how things will turn out, where you don’t know what will happen, where you don’t know the outcome.  You forgot what that feels like because you never had anything to compare it

September 9, 2024

Greg Thomas

When you get blocked

There are many times I get “writers/coders” block – when trying to do work. Staring at an empty page, an empty class. … … … And all you can do is start, you can start doing something, anything related to it – don’t go off and do something else, do this, that one thing in front of you – take that page, that class file and make it do something. For the next 20 minutes do nothing but fill that page and that class, and when you’re done – you will have something, it might require some edits and refactoring,