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Being Everyone’s Dad

October 26th, 2015 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Too often, some of us take on the role of caretaker of everyone around us, i.e., we try to e everyone’s dad. Such is folly. Sometimes, people are struggling at work. No problem. I will step in and H E L P them. I will take care of the problems that seem […]

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Tags: Adults · Competence · Family · Management

Adults Coloring, Yes Coloring Books

October 22nd, 2015 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips In an attempt to go back to reality, adults are returning to coloring books. Everyone has a smartphone, a tablet, a computer, or all of these. You move the mouse, the cursor moves, and lines and colors and all that appear on the screen. Press control-P and the printer produces the paper […]

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Tags: Adults · Authentic · Breathe · Writing

Let Your Friends Test Your Work

October 12th, 2015 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There are many testing strategies available. There is some benefit to letting close friends do the testing. I don’t advise this in all cases, but sometimes it is good to let your close friends test your work. This can hold for: software writing presentations singing clothing (what I choose to wear) One […]

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Tags: Adults · Testing

If We Tell Him, He’ll Get Mad

October 8th, 2015 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips People are free to choose their reactions to events. I am included in “people.” We all are. I don’t know how many times I have heard the phrase that is the title of this post. There are countless variations: You tell him that! That’s easy to say when s/he isn’t around. The […]

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Tags: Adults · Breathe · Choose · Communication

The Kids can See

August 3rd, 2015 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Kids today are anxious to move one to something better. That frustrates us old folks. We have a solution, if we choose it. This is one of things that bothers us old people about young adults: They want to move up and move on and do something else (too quickly) They haven’t […]

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Tags: Adapting · Adults · Agility

Childhood, Adulthood, and Privacy

July 2nd, 2015 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Too often I hear adult-to-child language used in discussions of adult privacy. If you aren’t doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t care if I’m watching. This is what parents tell small children. I heard it often as a child and I said it often as a parent of then small children. It seems […]

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Tags: Adults · Change · Communication