Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes success brings failure. Sometimes success brings anxiety. Note Wikipedia as an example. Back when Wikipedia was young (I am old enough to remember that), it was fun. I would write articles for it. I would put photographs in it to add some depth to some articles. Joy. Experiment. Learn. Then Wikipedia […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Do you have a great idea for a story? If you can write one sentence, there you go. “I have a great idea of a story,” said a a person who has a writer as a friend. The person continues with, “I will tell you the idea, you write the story, and […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes the best pieces of writing are still from simple tools and strong emotions. I recently read yet another post from a writer about how in the world you can write while you are traveling or on vacation or something or other that perplexes those who attempt to write. Ten years ago […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We have to read the fine print to understand our agreements. Why, however, is there fine print? I was reading through a contract document recently. I missed several things, just a couple of words buried in a 100-page document. I guess we call those things “the fine print.” Gotta’ read the fine […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Common usage is incorrect, but, hey, what’s the problem? Yet another headache. My grandson is a “rising junior.” That means, and everyone in America understands this but me, that he is between his sophomore and junior years of high school. (And he’s 6’3″ tall which puts him far above me, but I […]

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by Dwayne Phillips There is too much talk out there online. Companies should block that so people can read reliable sources. I know just the source for them. The Internet cost$ nothing. Well, a few dollars a month to Xfinity or someone or something, but really, the cost is nothing. I can access all sorts […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Perhaps we have become a bit too smart for our own good. Time to swing the pendulum back to practical, in-real-life activities. Yet another pendulum swings back and forth. We are in the 21st century and harnessing the power or our brains and augmenting our brains with AI and all such marvelous […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Chatbots can answer questions about written pieces. They can be good tools for feedback. I was recently testing several different chatbots to understand which performed better. I fed a 200-page document I wrote into each chatbot and asked them questions. There were several questions which all the chatbots failed to answer. The […]

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by Dwayne Phillips To use AI to write reports requires a person who can write well. Let’s use AI to write our reports or essays or deep research or whatever AI will write for us now. That’s not cheating, that’s using good tools … some disagree violently with that statement. The AI tools are quite […]

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by Dwayne Phillips A chatbot can be used to check a longer piece of writing for content. I was recently testing chatbots to determine if they could pull information from long pieces of writing. I attached an autobiography that was more than 200 pages long. I then asked the chatbots what seemed like obvious questions. […]

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