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10 months ago

Greg Thomas

AI Elimination vs Enrichment

AI starts off like any tool we use, complementing our jobs, and making it easier to accomplish tasks. Maybe we say “Thank you” at the end of a request and it keeps chugging along. It can save time, and allow us to focus on more enriching opportunities. Or it can be used to eliminate the thing it sought to protect – creativity, people, achievement, growth. What you use it for is up to you and what you do with the savings is up to you – enrich yourself or your team, or eliminate parts of it to keep racing for

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Over Alerts

How many alerts do you need when you sign up for a service? What is enough? What matters? Notifications and Alerts are great when done correctly, of value, and give you what you need. But when overused, they become emails sent to the trash. If you’re sending notifications, ask what their purpose and value are if you were to receive them in your inbox. If your first instinct is to delete, you’ve probably missed something if you, yourself, want to get rid of them as fast as possible.

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Where Are You Now?

Is this where you want to be? Are you taking steps to move where you want to be? Not being where you want to be is fine, not taking steps to get to where you want to be is not fine. Pick and Move.

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Record Books

“One for the Record Books” is generally thought of as that one moment in time where something was so great, that it made it into some great record book of tracking. What book? Where is this book? It can’t be the Guinness Book of Records? Are all your accomplishments in there too?  Mine? They don’t need to be, they don’t have to be, the only record book that matters is the one that you keep to track yourself. How are you doing?  What are you working towards?  What matters most? Do the books refer to your family, your friends, or

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Perfect Shot

The perfect shot exists. You can’t find it and you don’t know when it will strike, but it exists. When you least likely expect it, it will emerge, there on the page, ready for you to take it. The question will be whether you have done all the leg work, all the training, put in the practice, all the early mornings and late nights to be in the right position to take advantage of it. Only then will you have the perfect shot, otherwise, it’s just a normal shot.