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2 months ago

Greg Thomas

AI is all Flow, no Switch

Conversations about Flow state raged for years – how to get there, how to always be in the zone, how to reduce your context switching so you could stay in it – blogs were built around this topic. AI is always in a state of Flow, it has no context switching, and if it does, it’s not showing up. So the next time you’re in a work call and everyone’s freaking out about AI, remind them that the biggest thing holding your team back is that you still cannot, reliably, get into that flow state.

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

I want to be on a Team that…

This is a good exercise to do with your team. Get them all into a room, or on a call and ask them one question – don’t even ask it, just write it on the board – “I want to be on a Team that…” Your job is not to interject or say anything, your job is simply to write it all down, in as much detail and clarity as possible. “I want to be on a Team that…” And when the lists are written, everywhere on the board the next question to ask them… “What is holding us back?”

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

7 Minutes of Ads…

I had a long drive home yesterday, so I thought I’d listen to a podcast. Found a new one I had downloaded but never listened to an episode of. Then I listened to 7 minutes of ads. Then I stopped listening. The desire to hook a new listener as been replaced with the desire to get a pegcount on their ads.

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Metrics that Matter

Does time to complete actually matter anymore? What about the quality of the work? What about the efficiency with which you completed the work? What about how much of it you were able to do independently? What about the value you created in your work? If all you’re measuring is speed, then yes, AI is going to slaughter you. But there is more than metric to measure by.