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1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Making a Difference

Take your work. Take the tasks on your plate. Hand them in the old way, do the base necessary work, do the minimum, do the current trend of “job hugging” or maybe you’re “quiet quitting” and go back to what it is you were doing before. Or do something different. Put your all into it. Be relentless. Be tenacious. Don’t take no for an answer. Dig and dig and dig until you get to the bottom of it. There is a feeling when you complete a task, hand in an assignment, finish a job that you know you have knocked

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Time Changes

I don’t know if this “Time Change” stuff will ever disappear. We just sprung forward this first week and so far, it’s watching my dog readjust his eating patterns, identifying clocks that don’t change automatically, and wishing for it to be lighter in the morning again, but I know that will come soon. I wonder what would happen if we did something crazy one year and sprang forward 2 years. Why not, if you can do 1, why not do 2 and see where it takes you? It’s just time.

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

A Blogger’s Value

I couldn’t resolve an issue with AI this week. I went online and found a guy’s blog that walked through the issue on the first click. I’m not saying one is better than the other. I’m saying there is still a space for learning through people and we should not forget that.

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Things will ALWAYS go Sideways

Yes, they will always, always go sideways. I worked at a camp many years ago where we gave out a “Loser of the Week” award – it generally went to the same people each week. Why? Because they worked with all the machinery and all the jobs that had a propensity to go sideways. They weren’t Losers (it was funny), they worked hard and delivered, but when things went sideways, they went sideways. Ignore the perfection, embrace the sideways.

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Guess What – Everything is Changing

Okay great. Now that we know that, let’s figure it out. The hardest part about change is acceptance; we get mired in it for a long, long time. And then one day we go ahead and do it, and we realize – “I guess I should have started sooner.” If you accept the change early, you’re already moving faster than many.