by Dwayne Phillips No one lied, they just omitted some information. There are ways to find the omissions and those things are some of the more important pieces of information we need. No one lied, they just omitted a few bits and pieces of information. And, oh, if we had those bits and pieces of […]
Entries Tagged as 'Honesty'
Omission
January 2nd, 2023 · No Comments
Tags: Appearances · Communication · Ethics · Fear · Honesty · Information · Questions · Talk
Friendly Testers
November 17th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips It may be a good idea to have your friends test your system. Who should test your system? Who should tell you what they think about your idea? Who should read the manuscript of your novel? Friends or a “friendly audience” may be the answer to these and related questions. Consider the […]
Tags: Authentic · Honesty · Information · Learning · Testing
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Mimicry
September 15th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There is nothing wrong with mimicry. Let’s stop kidding ourselves; much of today’s machine learning is simple mimicry. mimicry: noun, the action or art of imitating someone or something, typically in order to entertain or ridicule. Let’s be candid here. Much of Machine Learning (ML)—a currently popular branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI)—is […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Honesty · Machine Learning
The Boy Who Cried Wolf and Other Tales of Adulthood in the 2020s
June 9th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Please, choose words wisely so that actions will match the words. Yesterday, I was hit with a couple of examples of the Aesop’s fable. The trouble was, these were real life, and a boy wasn’t crying—it was adults jabbering nonsense. I won’t repeat the examples. There is something about these crying-wolf examples […]
Tags: Expectations · Fable · Honesty · Integrity · Management · Word