Articles for category: Drive

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

Changing Direction

Go outside, run as fast as you can. Then, without planning, spin around as fast as you can and go in the complete opposite direction. What happens? Someone who is a runner might navigate the change well, turn and go, ready for the next challenge. Someone who is an occasional runner might have to slow down, lose momentum, and work to catch up. Someone who isn’t a runner might stop, or possibly fall over, question why they were running in the first place, then turn around and start walking, apprehensive of what might happen next. Add in some snow for

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

Generalist or Specialist?

Good news, the debate between generalists and specialists has raged on for decades. Even better news, AI will not change it. If Captain Picard can captain a starship and somehow know how to reprogram the deflector dish, there is still hope out there for all of us. Head down, back to work, ignore the hype.

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

Your Own Ideas

Your Own Ideas take time. You might not know where they are going to go, but they will take time, time that you are not sure you have or can invest at this time. The goal, as any Instagram account will tell you, is to transform Your Idea into your Your Implementation. Not always the easiest to do. But to take the first step, you have to accept and admit that your idea might not make anything. And might just be for you.

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

AI Generated This

Then, shouldn’t AI be the one that gets the money for it? Shouldn’t AI be the one that gets the credit and the pat on the back? Should we put an asterisk beside our work that says “AI did this?” Or perhaps a percent indicator of how much we used AI to do it? What’s the threshold from when it goes from your idea to an AI? At what point do we say, fully and completely, AI generated all of this and clap for them? At what point do we want to?

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Bottom of the Pile

You start off with a pile of work, and all you start doing is shovelling through them, you don’t stop, you just keep going and keep plowing through. You dig and you dig and you don’t stop digging. Then you’re partway there, the light is faint, but it is there. So you keep digging. And towards the end, you’re almost there, and then you decide to pull back, stretch, relax. And the worst thing you can do is stop, because when you stop, you won’t start again. So push, push through to the end, don’t relent, even if people tell