Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips When do you find time to write? Wrong question, at least the wrong question for me. This past week I was sharing something I was writing with another person. This person told me about how they have wanted for years to write something on a similar topic, but just couldn’t find the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We have computing power a thousand magnitudes greater than what took us to the moon and back. And we use it to play checkers. Sitting here in the coffee shop writing these blog posts, I look across the room and note someone playing checkers on their new Windows 11 computer. Also on […]

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by Dwayne Phillips This is impractical. Still, someone wants to do it with their own resources. Please, do it. I want to write a novel. Why? We already have a zillion novels. Go to the library and read a few. I want to make a movie. Why? We already have a zillion movies. Go to […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Learning is good as it leads to better performance and other beneficial things. There are tools available that accelerate learning. Let’s use those. I try to learn. Sometimes I forget to learn. Yes, fatigue clobbers my mind and I simply forget to notice things, store them, and use them. There are tools […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Lots of things to do. Which do I do first? Perhaps I go with the worst first. When my sons were little, they had tactics about the order in which they ate their food at dinner. One tactic was “worst first” in which they ate their least favorite food first so that […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Regardless of position or circumstance, some people do things while others don’t. This appears to be one of those parts of human nature that have puzzled me for years. Given a situation, some persons will talk, think, talk, ignore, and employ just about every verb there is except for the forms of […]

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Dwayne Phillips We can tell when we have affected another person by observing their energy. One of the better questions to ask when trying to convince or teach or somehow affect another person is, “When do they gain energy?” Consider: At what point does the other person change their posture? That is the energy. That […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we skim the surface to gather an overview. Sometimes we dive in deep to discover the details. I like an overview. I like the nitty gritty details. Which do we like? On which day? For me, the overview is easier. I learn the general idea. I tell people that “all I […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Fatigue still wins. Every endeavor requires energy to the end. Every step receives the same resources. In any endeavor, we must exert the same energy to every step. Starting fast and waning with fatigue will not suffice. For example, in writing, I should apply the same full energy to… every page every […]

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