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Oh, You Do Things Well Here

May 9th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Excellence is an exception. It is also a pleasant surprise. Enjoy it. Sometimes I am surprised in that I walk into a new situation with a new group of persons and, WOW, they are doing things well. Best practices, best tools, high expectations, high satisfaction. It is all here. They are well […]

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Tags: Chaos · Competence · Expectations · Expertise · People

Juggling and Dropping Things

December 28th, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips One key to learning how to juggle is to know how to drop something. The same is true for managing competing priorities and tasks. Just about every “Help Wanted” ad I see has something in it about managing competing priorities or managing multiple tasks. I guess they want someone who can decide […]

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Tags: Adapting · Agility · Chaos · Decide · Jobs · Management · Multitasking

You Would Think by Now…

June 29th, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips You would think by now that we would have straightened out all this mess with computers not quite working right. Sigh. Maybe one day. Over 30 years ago, (yes, I am that old) I was loading software onto a computer via 5 1/4″ floppy disks (yes, I am that old) and… kaput. […]

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Tags: Change · Chaos · Computing · Technical Debt · Technology

Communism—The Same Old Corruption

June 1st, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Look at the world. Those countries with seemingly unsolvable problems were under communist rule the longest. This post is a bit different as I delve into some political science and recent world history. It appears that the countries on earth that accepted communism the longest are the biggest messes. Russia is a […]

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Tags: Analysis · Chaos

Everybody Is Chattering (not)

May 25th, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Let’s curb our enthusiasm about these chatbots and large language models multiplying productivity and costing jobs. I just saw another article about how ChatGPT and the like are being used in yet another field of endeavor with giant gains in productivity. We won’t need half the people we have in the office […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Breathe · Change · Chaos · Fear · General Systems Thinking · Knowledge · Learning

A Basic: Document Control

May 15th, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips This is a basic practice. It is unfortunate that many have either forgotten or never knew this practice concerning documents. I find a document on the disk drive farm or network or whatever it is we call these things today. There are a jillion files out there, but I find the document […]

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Tags: Change · Chaos · Management · Work

AI’s VisiCalc Moment

April 3rd, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips AI has moved from interesting to actual work. This is much like the arrival of VisiCalc, which changed the home computer from hobby to actual work. I was still in college the first time I saw an Apple computer. It was so new and odd that the Apple II just sort of […]

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Tags: Apple · Artificial Intelligence · Change · Chaos · Technology

Spilled Coffee

October 31st, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I finally did it—I spilled a cup of coffee on my computer (first time ever over 40 years). A few lessons learned. After 40+ years of using my own personal computer, I spilled a cup of coffee on my current Apple MacBook Air. After a couple of hours, the coffee saturated the […]

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Tags: Accountability · Chaos · Cloud Computing · Computing · Failure · Humility · Learning · Mistakes

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