by Dwayne Phillips The persons who are in this place at this time to decide this thing are usually in the wrong place and time and deciding the wrong thing. Let’s decide. We are the deciders. We are in the deciding position because at some time and place in the past we showed how well […]
Not This Place and Time
February 23rd, 2023 · No Comments
Tags: Choose · Decide · Learning · Mistakes · People · Time
Worthwhile Problems?
January 26th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I see amazing solutions and advances in technology everyday. Are all these, however, solving worthwhile problems? I recently read about how persons at Nvidia created a system that modifies a live video so that the eyeballs of the person on camera point to the camera. This happens while the real eyeballs are […]
Tags: Choose · Engineering · Problems · Solutions · Technology · Wishes
Deciding
December 29th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips One of the fundamentals in the engineering of systems and architecture is a “D” word that many loathe in our 21st century. “Let’s hold off on this until we have to decide,” said a hopeful inhabitant of a post-modern universe. Yes, there are things that we don’t have to decide until we […]
Tags: Choose · Decide · Engineering · General Systems Thinking · Systems
Caution: Piece Purchase
August 22nd, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I only want to pay for what I use. Caution. While that sounds fine at first, there are implications. Technology has enabled us to go in that perilous direction. I only want to pay for what I use. I have this cable TV package (Yes, I am one of those old folks […]
Tags: Agreement · Choose · Customer · Economics · Remote Work · Work
Caution: Piece Work
August 11th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips When my work is done, my day is done. That is what I want. Really? Caution. That leads down a perilous path. I work from home most of the time. This pandemic and such and other factors mean that I don’t have an office in the building. I can go to the […]
Tags: Accountability · Choose · Remote Work · Work
The Right Word and the Wrong Word
August 4th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips It is important to use the right or correct word and avoid using the wrong word. This is an old fundamental in writing and speaking. Why am I writing about this? Because I continue to encounter professionals who make this error often. What is the right word and the wrong word? Consider […]
Tags: Choose · Communication · Fatigue · Vocabulary · Word · Writing
Rigidly Flexible
July 28th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips As a writer and just about anyone else, we must be flexible in a rigid manner. The same is true for almost every adjective and its antonym. A writer must be flexible. Except when the writer must be rigid. Except when exceptions arise. The same goes for just about any adjective and […]
Tags: Adapting · Agility · Alternatives · Choose · Communication · Language
Happy Birthday America, Again
July 4th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips This is the third or fourth time I wish us all a happy birthday. Happy birthday America. We are free to address our grievances to those who govern us. That one happens so often and freely that we forget someone had to put it in the Constitution. Congress cannot stop us from […]
The Tyranny of The Urgent vs The Primacy of The Relevant
May 12th, 2022 · No Comments
By Dwayne Phillips What is urgent and what is relevant often do not match. Should I balance them or is that not relevant? What are you saying or doing today? Is that the most urgent thing you can say or do today? No, but we have a plan. We are working towards something big, we […]
Tags: Choose · Decide · Relevant · Urgent
Mistakes and Learning
May 5th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We all make mistakes. Some of us learn from some of our mistakes some of the time. The choice is ours. We all make mistakes. That is part of being imperfect humans. How many mistakes did I make this week? How about just this morning? (Forgot to bring my laptop’s power cord, […]