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Entries from June 2022

The Work Diary

June 30th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Information is power. It can be good as well. I keep a steno spiral notebook on my workspace. I jot the date for today and everything I do today. I have done this since sometime in 1986. That is … a bunch of years. I have all the notebooks, so if you […]

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Tags: History · Notebook · Record · Work · Writing

Shortcuts (I Hope Nothing Terrible Happens)

June 27th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Recent fueling tests at NASA once again show us the peril of shortcuts. NASA recently completed a fueling test for its Space Launch System. Good for them. Test completed. The story in the link is a good one as it describes several things that went wrong while fueling. One of the problems […]

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Tags: Problems · Risk · Testing

More Data? Or More Places to Put It?

June 23rd, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We have more data today. Really? I don’t think so. We do have more places to put data, so we need to put something there. Right? I don’t know how many times I have read about all the new data we have today. The amount of data we have is BIG. The […]

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Tags: Computing · Data Science · History · Information · Technology

The Great Transition (Chaos)

June 20th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips A part of the Great Resignation and Great Embarrassment is the Great Transition. We are in this period of time now. We think we know the end state, but things sure are chaotic now with many unforeseen and unwanted events. We had the Great Resignation. That is still in progress. The pandemic […]

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Tags: Change · Chaos · Expectations · Jobs · Remote Work

Modern

June 16th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I see a trend in people using the word “modern” to describe technology. I find that unfortunate. Just this morning, I read: modern data stack modern programming practice modern machine learning modern artificial intelligence modern compilers And then I quit. I guess I am one of “those people” who expect others to […]

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Tags: Alternatives · Communication · Technology · Writing

The Lawyers and the Demise of Artificial Intelligence

June 13th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We move forward to the 1980s when the lawyers prevented artificial intelligence (AI) from helping us do our jobs. Note: This post is about legal maneuvers that prevent helpful AI systems. It is not about AI systems that were built poorly and mimic some human tendencies to discriminate against persons illegally. Those […]

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Tags: Accountability · Artificial Intelligence · Decide · History · Technology

The Boy Who Cried Wolf and Other Tales of Adulthood in the 2020s

June 9th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Please, choose words wisely so that actions will match the words. Yesterday, I was hit with a couple of examples of the Aesop’s fable. The trouble was, these were real life, and a boy wasn’t crying—it was adults jabbering nonsense. I won’t repeat the examples. There is something about these crying-wolf examples […]

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Tags: Expectations · Fable · Honesty · Integrity · Management · Word

Time to React

June 6th, 2022 · No Comments

By Dwayne Phillips Time is a marvelous tool. Allow time between an action or event and the reaction or the feedback for the event. I have spoken at large gatherings many times in my career (500 or 600 persons attending, most of them staying awake). I enjoy it. When I am finished speaking, I am […]

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Tags: Communication · Event · Listening · Reaction · Talk · Time

A Place to Belong (after being isolated)

June 2nd, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Americans are coming out of isolation from our reaction to the virus. One result is a growing trend to form unions. There is a growing trend in America to form unions for workers in coffee shops, restaurants, warehouses, etc. The obvious explanation is that these places have become rich and have not […]

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Tags: Commitment · Expectations · Expertise · Observation · Reaction · Remote Work · Virus · Work