Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips How I wish to be introduced says much about myself and what I wish for myself and those around me. How do you wish someone would introduce you at work or at a social setting (gosh, there is a variety of these)? Here is something I would like to hear in the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Organizing is pretty easy. Shuffle some squares and you have a company. Creating an organic system where persons can thrive is much more difficult. The results, however, are amazing. I made up the word “organi-mizing.” At least I think I did. I found some pages on Pinterest that had the word. So […]

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by Dwayne Phillips “Dot Notation” has some nice things going for it. Let us not, however, believe that it is object-oriented programming. “We do object-oriented programming,” said proud practitioner, project manager, and recruiter. “Believe us,” they all added. Silly me. I did believe these well-meaning folks. Time teaches. class-name DOT function-name See? Object-oriented programming (oop). […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Some of us have been here before. “AI” is hot again. Perhaps this time the future will be different from the past, but I doubt it. I worked extensively in AI in the 1980s. What I see today is remarkably similar. This is due to what I believe is a gross misunderstanding […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Is this yet another boring meeting or a new opportunity to learn? Is this naive? I attend meetings. In my former employment, I attended several meetings each day. My current employment has reduced that to several a week. Most meetings are boring. They are inefficient. They are drudgery. Yuck. Some meetings are […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Our backgrounds don’t often determine our present. I took one English class in high school. I took one English class in college. Not much of a background in writing, huh? I have written half a dozen books (published) and over a hundred articles (published) as well as a hundred short stories (self-published) […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Technology enables us to fake photos and videos. We can make anyone appear to say and do anything. Preventing such is quite simple. Someone makes a deep fake video of me saying and doing something I neither said nor did. How do I disprove it? “You know me. You know I wouldn’t […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Some matters are certain in my mind. Others are a bit fuzzy behind a veil of doubt and cause me to argue with myself. There are times for both situations. Some things are fuzzy in my mind. I am not certain about them. I have to argue with myself. I start a […]

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