Articles for category: Growth

2 hours ago

Greg Thomas

Shackleton’s Journey

One of the first leadership books I ever read was “Leading at the Edge” which centered around Shackleton’s journey to the Antarctic under horrific conditions while keeping his team together and alive. The copy I have is older than this one, but here it is if you haven’t read it. I stumbled across it, found it on a shelf at work one late night, and brought it home to read – one of the best leadership books I’ve ever read. So it was pretty cool to see this expedition to find his shipwreck here, after all those years, where his

2 days ago

Greg Thomas

Skewed Adjective AI Analysis

Presentation and design have never, and will never, be my strong suit. I very much like doing all my research, gathering my notes and content, and handing it off to AI to “prettify”. Make some great infographics. Make that slide deck sing. Take my markerboard diagrams and point out the flaws. Use a consistent colour palette. All of it, yes, please. But the most annoying part is all the adjectives that get thrown around my work and other points that skew a decision, simply because I was asking a lot of questions on that one topic. Objective Analysis still holds

3 days ago

Greg Thomas

But what do you Own?

I had to buy a software product last week that cost $65 – not bad – I know it’s a great product, I’ve used it in the past for many years, and I’m happy to pay for the upgrade and get a new version. I read the initial purchase agreement wrong and signed up for a monthly subscription for $20/month – so $240/year for a product I use a smattering of times because I’ll get some new content. Immediately, I cancelled and then dug through their website to find the license and the thing I actually wanted. Found it bought,

4 days ago

Greg Thomas

I’m not doing that bad am I?

I’ve watched this video a few times and keep getting to the last bit and laughing. Imagine being Cristiano Ronaldo, being able to score 3 goals at the World Cup at the age of 41, and having to convey to others – “I’m not doing that bad, am I?” It’s funny and sad all at the same time – if you’ve ever seen the regimen he follows to still be able to perform at this level, to still be able to beat out younger players, and to still be able to perform. Imagine how many people you work with and

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

The Element of Fun

In anything you do, there should always be an element of fun to it. Otherwise, why do it? When it comes to writing code, I will forever love console apps, and even now, I use AI to help me make cool pictures and have fun with them. It’s probably an early program or back to the i386 days, but it’s fun to see a little ASCII dinosaur moving across the screen. The app works and does stuff too, but yeah, that’s the fun stuff.

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