Articles for category: Drive

You’re Halfway There

I wrote about this thing called Craptivity, many years ago. It’s when you’re past the point of having started something, and you’re deep in the learning, training, iterating, and failing. It’s when you’re falling over yourself to learn but can’t seem to get out. It’s the hardest part of learning, because at that ebb, is where many people abandon the path of learning – because why stay there when I don’t feel great. But if you hang in there, stay there, iterate, make adjustments, that’s when you will come out stronger and better for it. Lots of time is left.

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

Missed One

The schedule broke last week, and many routines broke (something AI cannot fix unless you want it to look at my past writings and write something). But now the schedule has been fixed, and we’re back. And by schedule, I mean me. I didn’t write anything, had a number of other items to work on, and that was the week. Now it’s time to reset and revisit.

3 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

Everything Takes Effort

That’s it. Everything. Everything takes effort. Learning. Prompting. Drawing. Designing. Leading. Managing. Writing. Cleaning. Refactoring. Everything, everything takes some required level of effort to come together and be something of usefulness. There is no “unefforted” thing that we want that doesn’t contain some level of value. It all takes effort, so roll up your sleeves and dive in.

Too Many Tabs

The problem with tabs in browsers is that you can leave things alive forever, occupying your thoughts, taking over your brain, always prodding you with work you have yet to complete. It is a reminder of things not finished, always staring you in the face. And who needs that? You know you didn’t finish it. You know you still have work to do. Maybe it’s not your choice, but it is what it is. If you aren’t working on it, save them, group them, do whatever, and close them off. If you need it, you’ll come back to it. Too

The Easy Metric

Tokens were our gateway to playing games. Now they are the measure of our work and efficiency. They don’t have to be, they shouldn’t be, but right now, many companies are looking at token consumption as a successful metric for adoption. Why? Because it’s easy, it’s one thing, easy to count, easy to add, easy to subtract, and it gives you a nice number. The easy metrics have always been eschewed by leaders because they only measure what is easy, and not what is right. Accountability. Value. Responsibility. Leadership. Commitment. These are the values that we have always wanted in