by Dwayne Phillips Life is full of bad experiences. There is always something that can be learned in each experience. The bad experience is a form of tuition. The learning is a form of education. Nothing guarantees we get the education with the tuition. The education, however, is there for our choosing. College is pretty […]
Paying the Tuition and (Maybe) Getting the Education
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Change · Choose · General Systems Thinking · Learning
Technical Debt
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Technical debt in a system builds as changes are made to the system. At some point, the expense and risk of the next change is prohibitive. This is the first post I will make about fill-in-the-blank debt. These all go back to the concept of technical debt in a technical system. Systems […]
Tags: Design · General Systems Thinking · Technical Debt
Adapting and Adaptability
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Situations change and people adapt to those changes. Has adapting to chance taken away your ability to adapt? Change is constant Okay, that is neither original nor brilliant. It does, however, describe my experiences. Groups of people adapt Another observation that is neither original nor brilliant. What many people fail to observe […]
Tags: Adapting · Change · General Systems Thinking