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How Many Hours Do You Work?

February 25th, 2009 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips It seems that many knowledge workers “work” four hours a day (and are paid for eight). This merely highlights our ignorance of what comrpises work. Slashdot recently surveyed 24,000 workers. 40% said they worked four hours a day. Another 24% said they worked maybe four to six hours. This means two-thirds of […]

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Tags: Management · Writing

Notebooks

February 12th, 2009 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Knowledge is difficult to obtain and precious to me. Therefore, I write notes in notebooks and I keep the notebooks. This photo shows my notebooks (click photo to enlarge). I have filled these with various types of notes since 1984. Yes, that is about 25 years of notebooks. I use three types […]

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Tags: Journal · Notebook · Writing

Writing in a Journal

January 16th, 2009 · No Comments

I write in a journal almost everyday. I started doing this about eight years ago at the urging or Jerry Weinberg. I was about to attend a writer’s workshop led by Weinberg. He sent out an email telling the attendees several things that we might do to  prepare. Journal writing was one of the things. […]

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The Death of Newspapers: Poor News Writing

January 14th, 2009 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Newspapers are dying. They are being replaced by the Internet. The story goes on and on. But why? Newsprint is easier to read for many of us. I always found the big page format clumsy to hold and fold and keep straight, but it was print and I could take it anywhere. […]

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Tags: Judgment · Observation · Writing