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6 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Routine Takes Time

An Instagram post or a bullet list of what someone does for their routine takes about 5 seconds to digest. It probably took 3 – 5 minutes to write it out and throw some uplifting/inspiring music up against it. But to build the routine, to fine-tune it, to make it perfect, to get it to the point where it was no longer a list to be followed but a thing that was ingrained in everything that you did? That took months, years, maybe even decades (I skipped days and weeks, because routines only become routines when they hit the 1-month

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Raptured by the Masters

I went to a workshop a few months ago, which wasn’t tech-focused; it was with an artist I had never met before or had ever seen their work. It was an “Illustrated Talk” – when I got there, everyone was pulling out sketchbooks, and when the talk began, a few took a combination of notes and pictures (which was pretty cool to see). I think I stood out like a sore thumb with my laptop (not opened) and like a psycho, I sat there just listening – enraptured by the content. For the next hour, I gleaned so many useful

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Trick or Treat

The Trick – takes seconds to show, but hours, days, weeks, maybe even months to master. The Treat – is a quick ask – can I have something for nothing? The trick can get you a bigger treat than if you just asked because people will always recognize the work that went into it. Or sometimes you’ll get just the treat. You can ask for something and hope you get your worth, or show your value and get it.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

There is always a Balance

How much documentation do you need? How heavy are your processes? How much AI do you use? What level of automation do you have? How many PRs do you ship daily? Whatever your task, whatever your work, there always needs to be a balance between how much you need and how much you want. Do you need to spend time automating every single process that you have in existence, even if you don’t use all of them? Probably not, there is a balance between the most heavily used and the ones with the most complex steps that you mess up

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Planning for Rain Days

Rain will fall on your parade. On the days you had so much planned to do, you anticipated the desire to have no rain fall. Rain will fall. That rain can be people being absent, leaving their jobs, resources drying up, pivots and turns you didn’t plan. The rain will fall, and some days it will be harder than others. You can always plan for it, but will you scream against it, cross your arms, and complain? Or figure out how you can work within what is there?