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Entries from January 2022

Organized Disorganization

January 31st, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we “know where everything is” despite outward appearances. Sometimes we have “a place for everything and everything in its place.” Sometimes both ideas work. Sometimes neither work. Data is everywhere. Data is the new oil or bacon or pizza or something good or bad. The trouble with data is if I […]

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Tags: Analysis · Data Science · Information · Knowledge · Research · Technology

Organizing the Material

January 27th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Almost anyone can gather the material. Organizing it or creating a story from it, however, appears to be a rare yet valuable skill. We have lots of information. Go to Wikipedia. Download PDFs of the pages. Concatenate the pages. There it is. Go to a search engine. Find a dozen hits. Copy […]

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Tags: Clarity · Communication · Context · Design · Information · Purpose · Reframe · Stories · Teaching · Thinking · Wikipedia

Do or Do not

January 24th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Regardless of position or circumstance, some people do things while others don’t. This appears to be one of those parts of human nature that have puzzled me for years. Given a situation, some persons will talk, think, talk, ignore, and employ just about every verb there is except for the forms of […]

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Tags: Competence · Energy · Management · People · Practice

Data has always been Everywhere

January 20th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Lest we forget, we have always had more data than we could process. For some reason, we are now recording it with magnetism. I just read yet another article telling me that “data is everywhere.” Then there are the usual numbers of peta-peta-something-or-other bytes of data every second or so. Cries follow […]

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Tags: Computing · Culture · Data Science · History · Scale · Science

In Plain English, Please

January 17th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We usually understand one another better when we speak in simple, real-life terms—also know as plain English (for us English speakers). Please speak in plain English. Instead of: What are the Key Performance Indicators in your organization this reporting period? Try this: What keeps you awake at night? Instead of: Red, Green, […]

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Tags: Communication · Management · Work

The General Store (as a Service)

January 13th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We have XaaS or EaaS. We have returned to the day of the general store. We have almost everything as a service. Some call this XaaS. I call it EaaS (Everything as a Service or maybe AEaaS Almost Everything as a Service). Examples, IaaS, DHaaS, SaaS, PaaS, etc. (how many letters are […]

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Tags: America · Computing · Customer · Technology

The Reading of the PowerPoint

January 10th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips As crazy as it sounds, high-level, recognized expert, professionals still read their PowerPoint to the audience. I watch a lot of presentations. Not just a weekly briefing by someone who has relatively little experience on the job and making presentations. I watch presentations of research work. The presenters are experts, have years […]

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Tags: Adults · Change · Communication · Expertise · Reading

I Said that Last Week, Too

January 6th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Common thoughts foretell a general consensus. Someone tells me something. Wait, I said that last week when talking to yet another person. Wait, two independent conversations with different audiences, and the same idea is stated. There is a trend here. A consensus is forming. Perhaps great minds think alike (wouldn’t it be […]

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Tags: Communication · Ideas · Practice · Reaction · Synergy

The Power of Streaks

January 3rd, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There is something to the concept of momentum where a body in motion continues in motion. That even works with mental activity. Momentum works. Even with the mind. That doesn’t make sense, but in my experience it seems to be true. Examples: For over 700 weeks (13+ years) I have viewed the […]

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Tags: Blog · Patterns · Reading · Synergy · Time · Writing