Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips The “winner” will be declared by fallible persons with prejudices and favorites (just like us). Surely we can do better than this. Right? Surely, all us smart people can put our heads together and create a better community, a better consensus. Alas, not this year. We’re all working from home, at least […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We tend to reinvent the past as we move into the future. Remember JCL? I took an class in operating systems in 1980 (yes, I am that old). At least that was the name of the class. In reality, it was a class in what IBM called Job Control language or JCL. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We each have threats that we value and threats that we ignore. I sit here in a coffee shop drinking plain old coffee while writing. In the year of the virus, persons walk in wearing their theatrical masks to show concern for a threat. They grab their coffee, walk out, and sit […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Ah, my car will drive itself. I can rest, read, think about things. Really? Perhaps we aren’t comfortable with the answer to the question posed in the title. Who will really benefit from self-driving vehicles? Alcohol, canabis, and pharmaceutical industries. This includes restaurants and bars that serve these. The vehicle itself is […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Angst rules America this week. We have to do something. What can I change and how? Here is a set of questions to guide me. I write this in early June 2020. We have demonstrations and protests calling for justice and change. Perhaps I am too rational or practical, but I feel […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Improving what and how we do things is a touchy subject. Approach it carefully. “I wish they would do better,” said the optimist. “They are awful at this,” said the disgusted. “Improve,” said the commander. And what other stereotypical comments can we make when we see someone do something poorly? First, what […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Once again, the price of tools has fallen dramatically. This has shifted the place of work, and we are struggling to adapt. A few weeks ago, I went to a seminar where I connected a $100 gadget from Nvidia to a four-year-old $1,000 portable computer from Apple, used a bunch of $0 […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Change is much easier said than done. We don’t have to let the past determine the future, but otherwise requires change. Consider myself; I can change my future and make it different from my past Consider others. What makes me believe that others will change? That they will behave differently in the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I know what I’m doing. You don’t. I can have fun. You can’t. As a kid, I used to see wild stunts on television. They always prefaced them with, “Don’t try this at home.” Why not? Why could they do things, but I couldn’t? Of course they had years of this and […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Is faster or slower better or worse? Or is it simply different timing and rhythm? And are there advantages to changing the timing and rhythm? This past week I was in an office in a different city. Frustration, angst, and generally a lousy week of poor productivity. Just before the week ended, […]

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