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Entries from June 2026

Malady as a Resource

June 25th, 2026 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips A malady is a setback. A malady teaches a person something unique. That allows the person to do things others cannot. Permit me to dote on my granddaughter a bit. I am subjective here, but that is my privilege. She has congenital cataracts, i.e., she was born with cataracts. She sees well-enough […]

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Tags: Adapting · Choose · Clarity · Competence · Education · Expectations · Expertise · Family · Resources

AI? Give Me an Ice Cream Cone or a Honey Bun

June 22nd, 2026 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips AI is a tool to be used by those who provide ice cream cones and honey buns. Lose sight of that and advance at your peril. Who is going to be the winner in all this AI competition? Who is going to be the loser in this? After all, avoiding losing is […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Coffee · Concepts · Customer · Expertise · Management · Technology

Which Way? Big or Little

June 18th, 2026 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Which way is AI going? The big datacenter or on my little laptop computer? We seem to be at some fork in the road regarding artificial intelligence. The big (colossal) datacenters are rising from the farmlands of America. Big, bigger, and even bigger. If the price doesn’t run into the hundreds of […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Choose · Cloud Computing · Computing · Management · Technology

Important to Me. Important to You?

June 15th, 2026 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes, some things are important to me. It is usually a mistake to extend that importance to another person. The idea hit me. This is IMPORTANT! I will dig into this topic. I will expand it in many ways. Me: Hey, look at the results of my analysis. I have looked at […]

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Tags: Analysis · Communication · Conversation · Ideas · Information · Listening · Management · Relevant

The Other Side of the Canyon

June 11th, 2026 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips One of the greater challenges is to continue what was started on the other side of an event. We have the best intentions. Let’s work on topic A. Topic A is important. Topic A deserves all our attention. Here we go! Topic A is it. Boom! Something happens. Sometimes it is merely […]

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Tags: Event · Management · Reaction · Remember · Time · Work

Coding Is Not Everything

June 8th, 2026 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Vibe coding shows us that coding is not all there is to developing software. No duh! For many years I applied to jobs for software engineers and later what was called “developers.” “How many recent years have you written Java?” was a common question (substitute any other language). I tried to explain […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Computing · Design · Programming · Requirements · Software · Testing

Interesting

June 4th, 2026 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips This is interesting to me. Is it interesting to you? interesting, adjective, something that attracts your attention, arouses your curiosity, or holds your interest because it is unusual, exciting, or engaging. It is highly subjective, meaning what is fascinating to one person may be dull to another.—Google search The answer to my […]

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Tags: Alternatives · Communication · Concepts · Expectations · Ideas

Utter Waste

June 1st, 2026 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips All this computing power, datacenters, rising prices for hardware, land, water, electric power, etc. for what? To plan a party? This is utter waste. Come on, stop it! Wired recently had an article on the full story of OpenClaw (is that the name they eventually decided to use?). That is the agent […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Computing · Hardware · Problems · Resources · Software