Articles for category: Growth

2 hours ago

Greg Thomas

The Flea Market

There is a Flea Market near where I live. Growing up, it was huge, drawing big crowds every weekend, and it was a “thing” to go to it. It’s since shrunk down and gotten shuttled to the side, but it still survived for many years. And now word that it is shutting down completely. There are lots of videos about “amazing finds” at flea markets – I’ve always liked them for the oddities and all the memories you can find when going through old treasures of years gone by. It’s a hard thing to keep going when your climate is

1 day ago

Greg Thomas

The Author’s Notes

I never used to read the author’s notes before getting into a book – “Who cared what the person thought when they were writing this masterpiece? Get me to good stuff and let me know how it ends… SHOW ME THAT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT”. But more and more, I’m fascinated by them in understanding what someone went through in creating this piece of art. Starting a new book today, from 1986, the author had about 10 pages of notes walking you through thought processes and how this book was their first idea but then they needed a prequel (and oddly enough

3 days ago

Greg Thomas

The Complaint Department

All complaints are in, and wow, there are a lot. The complaints are easy; anyone can write a complaint about anything. I don’t like the grip on my chainsaw (I know nothing about grips). I wish my car’s cupholders were 3 inches back and could hold 3 drinks instead of 2 (when ordering for the family). Many cool products and inventions come from complaints – watching what people are building with 3d printers to solve the above problems and many more is incredible to watch. You can keep chirping at the Complaint Department, or pick one up and make it

4 days ago

Greg Thomas

Hitting your Pace

I run a comfortable 6:30 – 7:00 per km pace. I vary between it, sometimes going lower, sometimes higher (depending on where I am in the run), but generally I’m there in that bracket. The only way it will improve is if each day I show up (giving space for rest days) and work each day to shave off a second here, a second there. The goal is to get below 6 mins consistently, and at first I thought that was a goal that could be done in 2 – 3 months, but I was properly corrected – by my

5 days ago

Greg Thomas

AI Rest

When my chainsaw gets too hot, I give it a rest and go off for a bit, then let it cool down before doing more work. After all, I don’t want the motor to overheat and then have to buy a whole new one and have it cost even more. Does the same apply to our AI interactions? Let AI go to town for a bit, but then put it on pause over lunch so it can cool down and come back at it? Or do we keep expanding infinitum so it is always online, all the time, consuming everything?

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