by Dwayne Phillips Whatever method you use to accomplish your work, you are choosing it over something else. You gain something with your choice; you lose something with your choice. That is your trade. “We do DevSecOps,” said one practitioner. “We do agile,” said another. “We do what we feel like doing everyday,” said a […]
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Trades: We All Do Them
April 27th, 2020 · No Comments
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Misinformation, Disinformation, Entertainment, and Questions
March 2nd, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We seem to have confused ourselves once again. Perhaps simply asking a few questions would quell all the hyperventilating. Is it misinformation or disinformation? I confuse the two. Is either a real word or something a word inventor invented last week because he couldn’t find his dictionary and an appropriate word among […]
Tags: Adults · Information · Questions · Thinking
Automation and Time to Think
October 21st, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There are many things we can do to reduce the time required to complete tasks. Is that always a good thing? If we do a task each day, let’s find a way to automate it. Surely we can write a little piece of software that will do it for us at the […]
The Amazon Written Memo Meeting: Nothing New Here
September 2nd, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Jeff Bezos and Amazon have received much praise for their use of written essays at meetings instead of PowerPoint and bullet points. Great, but not new. This is a good piece about Amazon’s use of written memos at meetings. Keep the thinking focused. Don’t waste time. Think. Communicate. Excellent. Great. I love […]
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How Did We Mess Up This One?
August 15th, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Really smart persons continue to blunder. How? I read this article recently about how women are hurt more often and more severely than men in automobile accidents. Why does this happen? The crash dummies used in safety tests work well, but are almost always the size and shape of a man. Crash […]
Tags: Analysis · Notice · Observation · Stupid · Testing · Thinking
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
The Last Minute
September 27th, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Need a decision? Know the last possible minute. Little Me: Here is the situation. I don’t have the authority to decide the direction. Please decide. Big Boss: Not today. Little Me: But, I, we, need… Big Boss: If I don’t decide now, will we all cease to exist? Little Me: long pause…I […]
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Brevity, Clarity, and Explanations
August 6th, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips If I cannot explain something with brevity and clarity, I am not ready to explain it. Gosh, that summary is a killer. I am ready to explain something. I have this earth-changing wonderful great super-duper (note the lack of brevity and clarity) idea that the world needs to hear and implement just […]
Tags: Brevity · Clarity · Communication · Ideas · Learning · Patience · Thinking
Of Course I Write about What I DON’T Know
April 23rd, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Part 2 of 2 blogs on writing about…of course I write about what don’t I know. How else would I ever learn anything? This one doesn’t make as much sense as part 1 did. How can I write about something that I don’t know. Well… First, I learn. Second, I write. Or […]
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Narrow Minded or Focused?
February 22nd, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Does expertise mean you are focused on a narrow area or that you have become narrow minded? I recently met with a few persons who all had PhDs. Perons with a PhD tend to know a lot about a little. That is the state of us. We study something in great detail […]
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