Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips A simple piece of paper on the table next to the keyboard keeps everything flowing — especially new ideas. I have a productivity multiplier that I use everyday and have for decades. It is not the computer that is a thousand or million times more powerful than what we used to go […]

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by Dwayne Phillips One of the better solutions to a difficult problem is simply to trying harder. I was 17. I was a high school senior. It was baseball practice. I was the senior, the guy who knew stuff. The underclassmen were looking at me. I was supposed to teach them how to turn a […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We have invented a new job: it is the chatic (pronounced like “static”) or the chattering bot technician. I often work as a chattering bot technician. Substitute the name of your favorite system (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Coilot, Mistral, Qwen, Grok, etc.) for chattering bot and you have it. We employ “ChatGPT technicians” […]

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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 One way of accomplishing work is to employ fewer better people. Of course this works. That depends on the definition of “better people.” One way of accomplishing work is to employ fewer better people. It works. Of course it works. Let’s use this definition: Better people are those who can use the […]

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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 These new tools, ahem all that AI, are boosting productivity in our work. And then we hit the bottleneck and come to an emergency inducing crisis. Yesterday and today I have been using one of these new tools (some folks them AI, I don’t). I have accomplished in an hour what would […]

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by Dwayne Phillips There is time later for thinking deep thoughts. Now, however, is the time to accomplish the work, now. “We could do this better”—said me, many times. I know, I know, boy, do I know. We could do this better. “Let’s do better,” is a phrase I often use at the end of […]

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