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In Praise of Embarrassment

July 25th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I am happy to learn that embarrassment still exists. We still aspire. I recently read an article about how people are not asking Siri and the like questions in public by voice. They type the questions instead of saying them aloud. They are a bit embarrassed to let other people hear their […]

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Tags: Adapting · Appearances · Improvement · Self · Simple · Talk · Thinking · Visibility

Data Visualization (A Calendar)

September 7th, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Let’s not get carried away with things like “data visualization.” We’ve been looking at data for a long time. I have heard a lot lately about data visualization. This blog post should indicate that I have heard far too much lately about data visualization. The folly hit me recently as we were […]

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Tags: Calendar · Communication · Data Science · History · Journal · Knowledge · Technology · Visibility

The Stupid Hunters (still hunting down stupid everywhere)

May 8th, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Aha! I was sort of right. Now companies have teams of folks hunting down stupid in their systems to keep the world safe from stupid. Way back in 2015, I wrote a blog post about being a stupid hunter. This is not a hunter who is stupid, but a hunter whose job […]

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Tags: Analysis · Artificial Intelligence · Competence · Stupid · Systems · Technology · Testing · Visibility · Work

Understanding by Walking Around

March 16th, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips It is rare that we can understand something from one and only one perspective. We need to walk around the other sides to gain other perspectives. There is a method of describing something called the DoD Architecture Framework or DoDAF. Sometimes DoDAF is quite useful, but sometimes persons misuse it and … […]

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Tags: Communication · Design · Scale · Systems · Thinking · Visibility

The View from Across the Way

December 5th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes it is better to see the Eiffel Tower from across town instead on being on the Eiffel Tower and seeing the slums. I’ve seen many photographs of the great pyramids in Egypt. I have only seen a few photographs of the city next to the great pyramids. Yikes. I prefer the […]

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Tags: Appearances · Reframe · Review · Systems · Visibility

Please Show Me

March 31st, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There is much hyperbole in the technology field these days. There are three words that can eliminate that hyperbole. Be polite when using them. Over the years I have heard many amazing statements from people concerning something or other in the field of technology. I have mostly worked in computing over the […]

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Tags: Appearances · Hope · Humility · Technology · Visibility

Where is Their Energy?

September 30th, 2021 · No Comments

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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Tags: Change · Energy · Influence · Notice · Observation · Reaction · Visibility

Let Me Explain Myself, Then I Might Understand Myself

March 1st, 2021 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There is much good in the act of sitting down with another person and explaining to them what I think I am doing. It isn’t always easy to explain to another person what I am about to do. It is, however, a good use of time. That act usually shows me what […]

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Tags: Communication · Concepts · Ideas · Talk · Visibility

WDYWT?

October 15th, 2020 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I find a little trick that helps me write something “for the record” each day. I write. I tell myself that every day. Most days that is true. Most days I will write something of some substance or “for the record.” I have worked from home for the past six months (almost […]

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Tags: Adapting · Remote Work · Systems · Tools · Visibility · Writing

That’s Not It!

September 28th, 2020 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips One of the better things to do in a thinking meeting is to find things you don’t want to do. “That’s not it!” is one of the better things you can hear at a thinking meeting. For example, a few years or decades ago—I lose track—I was standing at the white board […]

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Tags: Ideas · Meetings · Success · Thinking · Visibility