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8 months ago

Greg Thomas

Idea Generation

Sometimes I sit down and try to come up with as many ideas as I can. I’ll set a goal that I will not stop until I write down 25 ideas. Then I get stuck at 15. I used to get up, go do something, try to think of more, but then I realized that was forcing the problem. The best way to get more ideas?  Is just to start doing it. Start writing. Start coding. Start drawing. Start working out. Then the floodgates open and the ideas spring forth. You don’t need an Idea Generator, you need and Idea

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

My Bad Writing

AI gets it perfect. My writing is not so much. When I was writing Code Your Way Up, the editor called me the “King of Run-On Sentences”. Not too bad a crown to wear. I won’t be writing with /tone any time soon. And that way, you’ll always be able to know it came from me.

8 months ago

Greg Thomas

Welcome to 3,000

I started writing this blog in 2014, now, almost 12 years later, through ups and downs, on days I wrote, and days I couldn’t, through the good grammar and the bad, through the good comments and the bad, I’ve reached a number I never would have thought possible. 3,000 No AI (You’ve seen the grammar, right?) No Idea Generators (I mean, who would come up with some of these ideas?) Barely a blip on the SEO radar. There were posts that prompted larger blogs and podcasts, and those that were left in the dust (perhaps where they should be). There

9 months ago

Greg Thomas

Taking the Lead

There is a shift that happens internally when you take the lead. You’re no longer sitting on the sidelines complaining. You’re no longer putting your hand up in meetings to have your say. You’re no longer asking for permission. You’re taking the reins, you’re mobilizing the team, you’re moving forward. You’re taking the Lead.

9 months ago

Greg Thomas

Gotta Plan?

A plan can be on a napkin, on post-it notes, a bullet journal, a piece of cardboard, or a ripped piece of wood. Plans on computers are good, but they aren’t great. The plans are not on computers; those are the ones we touch and commit to – each task is an assignment we are giving ourselves, and each time we scratch it off is a measure of achievement. You can’t get there from task apps or project plans. Your plan doesn’t need to be elaborate or understood by anyone else, it just needs to be written down and understood