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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

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

We Can’t Go Faster?

Of course you can, it’s just hard to do. You can always improve, but it’s going to take more effort. The problem with going faster is that it takes energy, push, and a willingness to fail when you might already be succeeding. And who wants to go from feeling great to now feeling like they are starting over again by stumbling along? But don’t doubt yourself, you can, always go faster.

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

There will always be an Imbalance

You can fight it as much as you want – but you will invariably – always do more than others. You will always do more work, take on more work, and deliver more work. It can be seen as unfair or an opportunity, you can get mad at it or think of what else it could be come later on. Maybe the idea isn’t to realize that there is an imbalance, but rather to realize what side of the imbalance you want to be on and work towards that?

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Pace We Keep

Everyone has a different running pace that is perfectly attuned to our bodies, it is a system that is designed for us to be successful without hurting ourselves. The same applies to the work we do; we have a pace that works for us – I might be able to do a few things at once and keep track of 3 – 4 projects concurrently, someone else might be able to do more or less. But what happens when our paces don’t line up and we are on the same work together? Do we drop to the slowest pace? That

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

Locked up for another Season

We’ve spent the last month getting ready for the winter – turning things off, putting away summer stuff, taking out winter gear, buying a snowblower – all the stuff that comes wtih the changing of the seasons from anything else to Winter. At the time of writing, it is snowing outside. There is no more work to do; we’ve done all we could do, and now it’s time to get through and live it.