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But Does It Matter?

July 27th, 2026 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips At Brown University, a professor shows that students used AI systems to get good scores on a take-home test. The in-class test scores were much lower. Does any of this matter? For a few days, this story was sort of famous (here is one version of the story). For one reason or […]

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Tags: Education · Expectations · Experiment · Goals · Learning · Testing

Telecommuting and Shipping

June 3rd, 2021 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Working from home? Ship. End of questions about working from home. Fourteen months into the pandemic, many of us are still working from home. We are about to go back to the office building. I think. I am not sure. There are still questions about this telecommuting, telework, work from home, and […]

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Tags: Culture · Employment · Expectations · Goals · Myth · Remote Work · Time · Work

The Future will be Different (???)

October 7th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Change is much easier said than done. We don’t have to let the past determine the future, but otherwise requires change. Consider myself; I can change my future and make it different from my past Consider others. What makes me believe that others will change? That they will behave differently in the […]

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Tags: Adults · Change · Choose · Goals

Defining Goals

June 4th, 2018 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips How I define my goals has a large affect on how I perceive my successes and failures. It also affects how I see others in their efforts. Define my goals. When I reach them, I am a success. How many people do we know who are successes? There is a key to […]

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Tags: Goals · Influence