Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips AI enabled completing a 12-page report in five minutes. No, that took ten years of effort. Somehow, using a new piece of software became cheating or something bad. A request arrived at work. Click. Boom. Pow. Out goes a 12-page report. Five minutes. Next? Cheating! Consider, however, that the five-minute task was […]

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by Dwayne Phillips If it is important to me to tell others what I think, I write it myself. If it is just stuff that a machine could write, let the machine write it. I write this blog. I sit in the coffee shop on Saturday mornings and press every key on the keyboard to […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We return to the era of the main computer center and waiting for computer time. Way back in the previous millennium, I was leaving graduate school. While in school, I had access to a new 32-bit minicomputer (I think it was made by Perkin-Elmer if anyone else remembers that time). One problem […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Those people are acting crazy! Good grief! Pause and breathe. They are good, smart people. Why would they act that way? Think. Just recently it happened again. A group of good, smart people were acting crazy in some unexplainable manner. They completely misread what people in my group had written. How could […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Alas, we worked from home during the PAN(dem)IC. Now we are encouraged to live in the office with everyone else. In the title of this post, “home” is a verb and “work” is a noun. Make the office your home. Live at work with your colleagues. During the great PAN(dem)IC (we are […]

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by Dwayne Phillips One of the greater challenges is to continue what was started on the other side of an event. We have the best intentions. Let’s work on topic A. Topic A is important. Topic A deserves all our attention. Here we go! Topic A is it. Boom! Something happens. Sometimes it is merely […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Endeavors have fine, precise adjustments. The details matter. There, however, is a time for details and fine, precise, adjustments. The early stages of work is not the time. I wish I was smarter. I wish I knew all the details and adjustments and the little factors of success at the start of […]

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by Dwayne Phillips AI capabilities are increasing fast. Too fast for some of us. What do we call this? This past week, Anthropic showed people what Mythos could do. WOW! That is amazing. Why only a few months ago… Where were we way back then? And, by the way, how do you pronounce Mythos? There […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Some AI tools increase productivity in some areas. Okay, I’m done with this task. Now what? That choice can be vexing. I used an AI tool (won’t mention which one). I completed a two-day task in an hour. Now what? Hey boss, tell me what to do now. One answer: go to […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We are in a hurry. We still need to do this well. Basketball coach John Wooden, his UCLA teams won 10 national championships, had many sayings. One was, “Be quick, but don’t hurry.” Hurry means to move or act with great haste. There is some implication in there about moving or acting […]

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