Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips I write this on November 25th. What will Christmas be in the year of the virus? I don’t know. The big media—network news and cable networks, the big newspapers—have botched everything this year, and botched everything badly and obviously. Can’t look there for any accurate predictions. Fifty-one percent of the country is […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We are responsible in that we are able to choose our response. This isn’t a new thought, but one that bears repeating. Around the first century in the world or Rome and Greece lived a man named Epictetus. He is the first persons recorded to have written the thoughts in this blog […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The year 2020 got you down? Declare it over. Person A: I’m glad 2020 is over! Person B: Huh, we have another 6 or 8 weeks of 2020 to go. Person A: No, 2020 is over, gone. We’re in 2021 now. Person B: Huh, we, uh, what? Person A: 2020 is gone. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips This is urgent. Is it? adjective: urgent (of a state or situation) requiring immediate action or attention. Immediate attention. Do it right now! That is a relative statement. Someone else tells me, “Do it before doing these other things on this list that someone has created. I deem this more important than […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Just as every event provides a learning, every event provides an opportunity. The choice to see and seize it is ours. The times are a troubling. What’s new? Everything is new; nothing is new. The times present us with the choice to shrug or to learn. We are paying the tuition by […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Back to fundamentals. We don’t always have to choose one or the other. We can have both. “You have to pick,” said a well meaning person. “I choose all of the above,” said another well meaning person. “No. That is not one of the choices,” said the first well meaning person as […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The person who picks the adjectives have the power. I heard an idea. Is it a good idea? Is it a bad idea? The difference between “good” and “bad” is which adjective is attached to the noun. The person who chooses which adjective has the power. That person interpreted the idea in […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Remote work has its efficiencies and time savers. It isn’t all efficient. There are parts that are wasteful. There are places where we multiply waste. Beware. Learn. Remote work saves a lot of time. Some of my colleagues spend several hours a day commuting. Working remote, as some of us have done […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Whatever method you use to accomplish your work, you are choosing it over something else. You gain something with your choice; you lose something with your choice. That is your trade. “We do DevSecOps,” said one practitioner. “We do agile,” said another. “We do what we feel like doing everyday,” said a […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We can think to the logical conclusion of a concept. We, however, can choose not to go to that conclusions. We rarely do. The logical conclusion of free enterprise is slavery. The logical conclusion of free speech is hate. The logical conclusion of survival of the fittest is murder. Many more examples […]

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