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2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Snow is Melting…

Snow is proof that change happens with just a few pluses and/or minuses in degrees. The colder it gets, the more it stays on the ground; the warmer it gets, the more it melts and drips into something else. Change, with a difference of a few degrees. That all it takes, is a little nudge.

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.

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.

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.