by Dwayne Phillips Kind, caring, helping persons tend to keep going to be more kind, caring, and helpful. Delete the last part. I have met many kind, caring, and helpful persons, who love others. They speak and write and teach in all forms to convey helpful information. They want to be helpful, to ensure others […]
Entries Tagged as 'Clarity'
Thank You for Helping, but Enough is Enough
August 2nd, 2021 · No Comments
Tags: Breathe · Brevity · Clarity · Communication · Help · Respect · Time
This is not the Last
July 29th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There will be many more opportunities to convey something. I don’t need to “slip it in” today and ruin today’s message. This will not be the last blog post. This will not be the last essay. This will not be the last speech. This will not be the last public appearance. This […]
Tags: Calendar · Clarity · Communication · Patience · Time · Writing
Clarifying the Message (do we want to do that?)
April 29th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There is a risk to clarifying the message relative to an idea. We many learn that the idea is a bad one. I have an idea. I have a message. My message is fuzzy, not good. I want to clarify my message. Really? If my idea is a bad one, clarifying the […]
Tags: Clarity · Communication · Ideas
We May Never See 2024
March 22nd, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Three years from now may never come. “I don’t want to be ‘locked into’ company A because company B may have a better offering in three years. We need to be able to shift to company B.”—a well-meaning advisor. In three years, the world may be different. Let’s remain agile. Let’s keep […]
Tags: Agility · Clarity · Expectations · Planning
What is Complicated, the Thing or the Description of the Thing?
November 30th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips It sure is hard to understand fill-in-the-blank. Or is it hard to understand what someone wrote about it? I recently experimented with Jekyll. Good grief! That’s complicated! I also experimented with Git and GitHub. Good grief! Those things are complicated! And then I read several textbooks on machine learning and convolutional neural […]
Tags: Clarity · Learning · Simple · Teaching · Writing
The Delegated Task Test
November 2nd, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips When delegating a task to another person, clear communication is key. It is unfortunate that clear communication is also rare. Here is a simple test. Person A: Are you doing task such-and-such? Person B: Not myself. I delegated task such-and-such to Person C. Person A: Oh, good. Task such-and-such is intricate and […]
Tags: Clarity · Communication · Testing · Work
The First Step
October 8th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The first step, if taken carefully, eliminates almost all other directions from consideration and frees the mind for everything else. I’ve read about trackers, i.e., those persons who are assigned to find someone who is lost. They find people lost in the woods. The most important thing the tracker does is to […]
Tags: Clarity · Leadership · Management · Planning
Sipping from a Fire Hose (or We are too Lazy to do Our Jobs)
April 6th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The new boss arrives. Everyone tells her what they are doing all at once in great detail. The new boss is “sipping from the fire hose.” I heard this “sipping from the fire hose” phrase a thousand times in my career. The new boss arrives. She is inundated with details during the […]
Tags: Accountability · Clarity · Work
Certainty, Doubt, and Arguing with Myself
July 1st, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Some matters are certain in my mind. Others are a bit fuzzy behind a veil of doubt and cause me to argue with myself. There are times for both situations. Some things are fuzzy in my mind. I am not certain about them. I have to argue with myself. I start a […]
Tags: Clarity · Conversation · Questions · Thinking
Weinberg Golf and Bundy Fishing
March 7th, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Perhaps we can find enjoyment anywhere at any time. It is worth the attempt. Several years ago I had several conversations with the late Jerry Weinberg, one of the best computing consultants we ever had. Jerry told me about how he played golf. Jerry started playing the game most familiar to everyone. […]
Tags: Authentic · Clarity · Conversation · Fun · Ideas