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5 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Discipline for Time

The days are shorter right now, and it gets darker and colder faster. But the time is the same. It’s just that we spent the last 6 months with warm days and long weather, thinking everything was infinite, and daylight stayed with us past the late hours of the evening. Finding time isn’t a Quest, it’s a Discipline, and once obtained, it can become near infinite.

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

Your Own Ideas

Your Own Ideas take time. You might not know where they are going to go, but they will take time, time that you are not sure you have or can invest at this time. The goal, as any Instagram account will tell you, is to transform Your Idea into your Your Implementation. Not always the easiest to do. But to take the first step, you have to accept and admit that your idea might not make anything. And might just be for you.

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

Short Stories

I picked up a random book at a flea market a few months ago that I’m just getting around to reading now.  I didn’t think it’d be that great, the length seemed a bit daunting, and it felt like I was going to have to become invested in another long-term saga that spanned generations and might not ever be finished. But it’s not. It’s a bunch of short stories with a loose thread pulled between each one.  It’s an insanely clever idea; you can see that you are in a world being created, but so many stories are interwoven between

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Game that Never Stops Giving

Looking for a gift for a friend who never stops giving? Anomia – it’s the simplest game, but it invokes the strongest reactions from all those who play it. If you have yet to play it, it’s worth the $20 – you will laugh from it, you will learn from it, you will become frustrated by it. All elements of a great game.

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

We have Perfected the AI Coworker

I’ve had a few interactions with AI where I ask it a question, technical of course, it doesn’t give me the correct answer, I rephrase and/or learn more and ask again. I get another answer. I repeat the same process, only this time I get the initial answer that started us down this path. And this might go on for a few more interactions, partly because I want to see where it will go. But then I get frustrated and I tell it to STOP. And it keeps going, I say STOP again, and it keeps going. Maybe around the