by Dwayne Phillips Tomorrow is our national election day. As with almost everything, it is not the event, it is the reaction. A little research shows that I have written on this topic several times. I do so again as I think it is important. Tomorrow is our national election day in America. Millions of […]
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The Event and the Reaction
November 4th, 2024 · No Comments
Tags: America · Choose · Ethics · Event · Reaction · Thinking
Happy Birthday, America
July 4th, 2024 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Once again, America is still here. I guess the Peter Principle explains our situation as the founders seemed to understand that. Once again we come to the anniversary of the founding of this grand experiment we call America. This is an election year, and those of who who can still think have […]
Tags: America · General Systems Thinking
Work From Home, Work at the Office (And Commute)
January 4th, 2024 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There are many aspects to working from home or at the office. One is simply the time wasted commuting. Folks are returning to the office after the pandemic. They are? Are they saying they are, but not really? One simple aspect of the question is commuting. I live in he Virginia suburbs […]
Tags: Accountability · America · Economics · Employment · Meaning · Measure · Remote Work · Work
The Most-Heard Sermon of All Time
December 25th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Three generations ago, an eight-year-old told us the reason for the season. The most-heard sermon of all time was delivered by an 8-year-old boy voicing a cartoon in 1965. Christopher Shea spoke the words below in A Charlie Brown Christmas. That sermon has been heard by millions or hundreds of millions of […]
Tags: America · Authentic · Brevity · Christmas · Clarity
Happy Birthday, America
July 3rd, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Tomorrow America turns 247 years old. Much younger than many places and older than some. We are still trying. Tomorrow is the Fourth of July. Back in 1776, some folks penned a document and signed their names declaring that this place was independent from that place. Those who signed would all be […]
Tags: America
Vin Scully, Neighbor – again
August 8th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Vin Scully died last week. He retired almost six years ago. I wrote about him in September 2016. Here is a repeat of that. I won’t hear my old neighbor’s voice anymore. Vin Scully retires. It was 40-something years ago. I was a kid playing in the back yard in southern California. […]
Tags: America · Childhood · Conversation · Family · Life · Listening · Remember
Happy Birthday America, Again
July 4th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips This is the third or fourth time I wish us all a happy birthday. Happy birthday America. We are free to address our grievances to those who govern us. That one happens so often and freely that we forget someone had to put it in the Constitution. Congress cannot stop us from […]
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 […]
Tags: America · Computing · Customer · Technology
Cause Change
June 8th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Angst rules America this week. We have to do something. What can I change and how? Here is a set of questions to guide me. I write this in early June 2020. We have demonstrations and protests calling for justice and change. Perhaps I am too rational or practical, but I feel […]
Tags: Alternatives · America · Change · Government · Ideas · Patience · Questions
Do $omething U$eful In$tead
October 14th, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Instead of paying fines to “the Treasury,” how about we do something useful instead? Facebook recently paid a $5Billion fine for violations of this or that. Lots of fussing about the “pain” felt by Facebook and the pain felt by those who were violated in this violation. Let us consider, for a […]
Tags: Accountability · America · Government