6 minutes ago
I got Skillzzzz
1 day ago
Who Generated this Code?
2 days ago
What Meetings Do I need to be In?
3 days ago
The Strategy Session
4 days ago
Ecosystems Aren’t Built
5 days ago
Now is the Time to Learn
6 days ago
Throwing Solutions at a Problem
1 week ago
AI Doesn’t Do Half the Job
1 week ago
Research, Analysis and Dissemination
1 week ago
The Importance of Design
6 minutes ago
I’ve been playing around with Skills on Claude quite a bit lately – automating common tasks that I’d agonize over that cover all the bases and give me the output to move forward with. Like anything, I’ve discovered there is a whole “Skills” marketplace, which brought me back to last year when people were buying and selling prompts on prompt exchanges. I think skills are a great workflow tool. I like being able to tailor and focus them on the work that I do specifically – essentially becoming an extension of my work and less about the prompt I put …
Who Generated this Code?
Greg Thomas
Is that the question we will be asked going forward? What tool did we use to generate code? If we answer that we wrote it ourselves, will we be revered as an elder who once used the magical keyboard of Orbos to decipher the code of Phobos? I don’t think any of that exists. This was a question that mattered 4 – 5 years ago when something looked off, and you wondered how something was being built. Does it matter now, though? Is it more a question of “How was this code generated?” that we will be asked going forward? …
2 days ago
What Meetings Do I need to be In?
Greg Thomas
You only ever need to be in the meetings that you actively contribute to. If you are not contributing to the meeting, you do not need to be there. If the reason you are there is so people can do their job, then you are using your meetings to solve a very different problem that cannot be solved by you being in a meeting. Take a run of your calendar and eliminate everything you don’t contribute to. If you’re missed, they will reach out; chances are, you’ll get some time back in your day. Want more? Check out my book …
The Importance of Design
Design without code is not a great design; it’s airy, never been proven, just there, who knows what it could mean. Design is important, whether you do it with AI or on your own; there is value in that work, and it is largely unhidden. If it fails, everyone knows it was a bad design. If it works, no one ever mentions it again. Some of the best code I ever wrote was a simple design to send out invoices every day to customers to get our money. It ran for years without ever needing someone to coddle it or …
The Pace of Change is Collapsing
I can go onto LinkedIn, do a bunch of reading on where people are at, and then I can go learn how things work. Learning is the fun stuff; it’s where you get to open your mind to all the possibilities around you. And then you can go back to LinkedIn and realize you are behind (or think you are). Every day, people are doing something different with what they have learned, and the gaps between what they learn and implement are shifting dramatically. With that, we lose something, though, the time to ponder, to think, to consider, to absorb, …
2 weeks ago
A New Fresh Look
It has some bugs to work out, but I gave Rambli a refresh – I can’t remember the last time it was that I did this – but it felt like a good time. There are some bugs, some good, some bad, some ugly, that I need to figure out. There is probably more around how I write and what I put into that writing that matters a bit more. Maybe this is the kick to improve and do something a bit different. The kinks will get worked out over the next week or so, and then we’ll wonder why …