Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips
Organizations tend to highlight their differences. The differences set them apart in the marketplace. Concentrating on the differences also can dim thinking. Perhaps it is good enough to merely be good enough.
In my experience, organizations tend to highlight what makes them different from all other organizations. They concentrate on the differences. They talk [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
Quick, read the following and agree or disagree:
Smart people are wrong more often than stupid people.
I believe the above is true. It seems that smart people read, study, think, and propose ideas more often than stupid people. Stupid people seem to sit around and choose-your-own-stupid-activity (e.g. watch TV, surf the net, take a [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
The digital devices we have can dominate our lives. That still doesn’t change a simple fact - this is an analog world inhabited by analog people.
We live in a digital world. Cell phones, Internet, digital cameras, digital video camcorders - all digital.
At its heart, the digital world comprises only two states: on and [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
I had an enjoyable evening yesterday. My son was working on a programming project for a freshman-level computer science class (college). I - after being asked - jumped into the problem. Several observations.
(1) Computer science professors aren’t any better at creating meaningful programming assignments than they were 30 years ago.
(2) Programming assignments are [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
In part 1 of this post, I covered the mathematics and truth table of implication. Implication shows that
If I accept something that I know is FALSE, I can prove anything else that I know is FALSE
For example, if I accept that “1=2″, I can prove that “2=3″. I know that 1 doesn’t equal [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
This is dangerous - I am splitting a blog post into two parts. Hang in there with me.
People are not always logical. That bothers logical engineers like me to no end. There is a mathematical and logical method to prove the non-logical behavior of people. That math helps me understand the how and [...]

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