by Dwayne Phillips Almost anyone can gather the material. Organizing it or creating a story from it, however, appears to be a rare yet valuable skill. We have lots of information. Go to Wikipedia. Download PDFs of the pages. Concatenate the pages. There it is. Go to a search engine. Find a dozen hits. Copy […]
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Organizing the Material
January 27th, 2022 · No Comments
Tags: Clarity · Communication · Context · Design · Information · Purpose · Reframe · Stories · Teaching · Thinking · Wikipedia
Thinking Out Loud
September 17th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Some persons “think out loud.” This is okay only when done properly. Some persons “think out loud.” They state a list of ideas quickly. This is a rough draft spoken instead of jotted on paper. The ideas are only partially formed and should be worked and reworked until they make sense. That […]
Tags: Communication · Context · Thinking · Uncategorized
Beware of the Unbalanced Relationship
August 24th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Take great caution when you enter an endeavor with someone who has far more experience than you. There are occasions in life when we enter a financial agreement in a terribly unbalanced relationship. One example: a parent dies. I am arranging the funeral, i.e., I am paying for it. I go to […]
Placating and Reversing Roles
July 20th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips An age-old question that won’t seem to go away. Odd how things come around. I keep a file with ideas for blog posts. I jotted some notes for this post about six months ago. I was perusing that file and noticed this. While the context of that note jotting months ago was […]
Tags: Congruence · Context · Other · Self