by Dwayne Phillips Basing decisions on a person’s age is a bad practice and always has been. Individual persons are just that—individual persons. Groups have tendencies. Oh the horror of that statement, but it has some truth behind it. One of the greater follies of this post (post(post)) modern era is that of the “digital […]
The Folly of the Birth Certificate
August 24th, 2017 · No Comments
Tags: Culture · Differences · Expectations · Generation Y
We’re Missing a Few Layers (and Adaptability)
October 13th, 2011 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We have chased manufacturing out of America. We now have holes in our job structure and have lost the ability to adapt to a changing world. I read a few posts on the “Econolypse” lately. Here is one post, and here is another. We have chased the manufacturing jobs from the U.S. […]
Tags: Employment · General Systems Thinking · Generation Y · Ideas
Sometimes We don’t Want New Technology
July 5th, 2010 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We don’t accept every new gadget that comes from the mind of an engineer. New uses need to be demonstrated for new technologies to take hold. Either that or new generations come along with different values. New technology comes every day. We immediately accept it into our lives without a thought of […]
Tags: Adapting · Change · Design · People · Privacy · Technology
Just In Time Technology
April 7th, 2009 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Kids today. They do new things at dizzying speeds. Sometimes it is a big waste of time, but sometimes it is quite productive. They are entering the work force in droves, so be ready. Yesterday 6AM – I wake my son. He wanted to ask me something about headphones, so he left […]
Tags: Change · Generation Y · Technology