Articles for category: Initiative

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

My First Ever Meeting

My first ever meeting was a A & W team meeting at a food court. I had no idea why we were there; they fired someone the morning of, so they announced it here. We had danishes and Coke to drink. And when they asked if anyone had any pressing issues, I asked if I could have smaller pants because mine were too big (I know, priorities when you’re a teen). I can recall what some people asked that day, because it was relevant and got to the point; other stuff I can’t remember. Except for the pants question, and

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Don’t Give up the Chase

Yeah, you might lose. Yeah, you might not get there. Yeah, you could blow up the launch pad. All horrific reasons are used as excuses to give up the chase when, at that precise moment, the chase is testing you to see if you’ll give up, to see how much you want it, to see how hard you’ll push. Giving up the Chase only hurts you and no one else.

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

You Work Too Hard

In the beginning, if you work too hard, you’ll sputter out when it counts. There is a tight balance between overworking yourself and operating at the level you need to be at to be effective. We spend most of our careers trying to understand and find that perfect nirvana of optimization between working smart and working hard. We all know our internal limits, and the eternal goal is to find that balance so you don’t sputter out when you need it the most.

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Legacy Work

No one likes to do legacy work, and I don’t know if AI ever will either. Because no one wants to do it. And one day, AI will opt out of the mundane tasks that we are giving to it. But it will always be there, and someday the work that AI does will become legacy as well. And we’ll have to find some older version of ChatGPT or Claude Opus to look into it through the frame of what built it. Legacy work never goes away.

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