12 hours ago

If you can recreate that magic, where kids would wake up in the morning, with or without cereal, and watch your show for 2 – 3 hours, to catch the best cartoons, the ones they loved the most, then you have something. If you can recreate the need for someone to show up, you’ve built something. If they rush into the kitchen to make something while trying not to miss the previews, then you have something. Take it, build up on it, don’t stop making it better. But that’s the level of magic you’re trying to create – that’s the …

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1 day ago

I Can do That!

Greg Thomas

Great, go do it. Stop waiting for permission. Stop waiting for a response. Just go and do it. Actions will always succeed words. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).  I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.

2 days ago

This Looks Like a Good Problem to Solve

Greg Thomas

Often when I’m working through problems, I’ll find another one that looks good to solve. It’s very akin to when you’re putting up a shelf – oh yeah, it needs to be level, I want it screwed into a stud, I want the screws hidden – and this then breeds things like – oh wait, the wall has a bend in it, I need to account for it, or the studs don’t line up as they should. Some of these problems you need to fix now, others can wait (studs in the wrong place) – you have to choose what …

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1 week ago

I got Skillzzzz

Greg Thomas

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 …

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2 weeks ago

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? …

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2 weeks 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 …

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Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).  I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.

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