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Yeah, But

March 27th, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips This is a practice I recommend for non-fiction writing—especially writing where the writer is attempting to teach good practices. I have written books and dozens of articles and other things recommending good practices. If you want to accomplish such and such, do this and that and the other thing. And then I […]

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Tags: Alternatives · Communication · Concepts · Consulting · Expertise · Knowledge · Writing

An Augmented Reality Suggestion

March 17th, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Here is a suggestion to those folks who can make these augmented reality (AR) glasses that would help me as a writer and reader. Last year I provided the world with a suggestion for a pencil that would link to a spelling checker and AI. And here is another AI-related suggestion for […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Cloud Computing · Technology · Visibility · Word · Work · Writing

Discovery Writing

February 27th, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Writing is a type of thinking. Thinking often leads us to discover something. Writing (thinking) is worth the effort. Writers often divide their methods into two camps: outlining and “pantsing” (seat of the pants). Those who use outlines think ahead, plan, create detailed outlines, then write by filling in the outlines. Those […]

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Tags: Ideas · Thinking · Writing

We’re Not Paying You to Be a Typist

February 10th, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips One of the reasons to use these chattering bot word generators is simply to stop wasting time. A typist is a professional who specializes in accurately and efficiently converting information into digital format. This may involve transcribing handwritten notes, audio recordings, or printed documents into electronic files. They also possess strong data […]

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Tags: Authentic · Change · Communication · Questions · Thinking · Work · Writing

One More Adjective, One More Adverb

February 3rd, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Often, with the best of intentions, groups of people writing something add needless adjective and adverbs. There is a group of persons. They are writing directions, a memo, something important or seemingly so. Someone, earnestly with the best of intentions, suggests, “We should change ‘calculate performance’ to ‘carefully calculate detailed performance.’” Just […]

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Tags: Authentic · Brevity · Clarity · Communication · Meaning · Reading · Writing

Inconvenient Facts of Fact Checking

January 27th, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips A problem with fact checking is that people write so poorly these days we cannot find the facts in seemingly factual statements. Fact checking and the absence or removal of fact checking has been in the news recently. Some society media outlets have removed fact checking and such for something else called […]

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Tags: Accountability · Clarity · Communication · Data Science · Error · Science · Writing

Story Quilters

December 12th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips An age-old method of writing long pieces comes from writing short pieces without a plan or outline. The “outline” comes later. I recently stumbled across a description of writers as Story Quilters. This is not a method of planning or outlining a large piece before writing anything. This is not a method […]

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Tags: Alternatives · Communication · Experiment · Ideas · Improvement · Stories · Writing

Experiences With NoteboookLLM

December 9th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I have been experimenting with Google’s NotebookLLM. I like is using it to remind me of what I have written in fifteen years of this blog. I have been experimenting with Google’s NotebookLLM. I’m still not sure what NotebookLLM is or what it is intended to do. I guess there is value […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Blog · Google · Learning · Machine Learning · Questions · Writing

Useful and Recommendable

December 5th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Non-fiction books should be useful and recommendable. It is easy to lose sight of these qualities. A book by Rob Fitzpatrick is full of these qualities. I recently finished reading a book of simple fundamentals for writing non-fiction. “Write Useful Books. A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction,” Rob Fitzpatrick, […]

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Tags: Authentic · Communication · Consulting · Notebook · User · Writing

My Book and Wikipedia

November 28th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Was my book or speech or seminar replaced by Wikipedia and ChatGPT? Time for me to learn. Was my book replaced by Wikipedia, i.e., each section of my book can be read or the reader can just go read a few Wikipedia pages? Is my book redundant to Wikipedia? The same can […]

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