by Dwayne Phillips We used to discuss this topic, but with different choices. Time passes. People discuss this on the Internet. Today’s question is “R or Python?” Good grief, two interpreted languages that run slow. But they are good for prototyping things, bringing in mammoth libraries, and writing useful things in ten lines of code. […]
Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence
August 9th, 2021 · No Comments
Tags: Choose · Data Science · General Systems Thinking · Programming · Research · Thinking
Back to the Office? On What Occasion?
August 5th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips After the pandemic, some of us will return to the office building on some days. When? Why? Let’s think a bit. The pandemic is over, I guess. It is time to commute to the office and work there. Right? Well, maybe. There are several activities for which online telecommuting doesn’t fit. This […]
Tags: Management · Meetings · Remote Work · Resources · Thinking · Work
Chimney, Orange, and Odd Connections
July 19th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The words “chimney” and “orange” rhyme, well, sort of, maybe not, but they are certainly connected. In English, there is no word that rhymes with “orange.” At least that is what I have read. I’m not sure about that. I have heard the same about the word “chimney,” but once again I […]
Tags: General Systems Thinking · Observation · Reality · Systems · Thinking · Word
Jotted Thoughts
April 26th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Is a thought expressed a complete, accurate, well considered thought or merely thinking out loud? Lots of folks express thoughts in social media these days. I define “social media” as anything that is published in any form without exhaustive peer review. Lots of folks are massacred because of some of these thoughts […]
Tags: Communication · Listening · Thinking
Agile Nation(?)
April 22nd, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Agile thought: do, learn, change, do learn, repeat. Great stuff in some situations. Not great in national policy. Someone recently noted that the Agile Manifesto was 20 years old. This was a fancy way of stating the obvious when it comes to experiments: do a little, learn a little, do a little, […]
Tags: Agility · Change · Learning · Thinking
Why We Can’t Hire Enough Data Scientists
April 15th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Another variation of Lewis Carroll’s “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” This time we apply it to hiring data scientists. “We can’t hire enough data scientists.” At least I read that almost everyday out there on the Internet. Well, why can’t we? Here are […]
Tags: Agreement · Certification · Data Science · Jobs · Mathematics · Thinking · Word
The Uninvested Assistant
March 18th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips When problems occur in complex online presentations, those involved struggle to fix the problems. They are invested in the presentation. That investment inhibits thinking. Always bring along an uninvested assistant. I have participated in countless ZoomerTeamer meetings in the past year. Some were simple—a daily chat with a small team of colleagues. […]
Tags: Breathe · Fear · Judgment · Problems · Thinking
We Know More Now, So…
February 25th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The pandemic has its own phrase for the use of bad or junk science and poor thought and communication. It’s in the “news” almost everyday now. I feel it came about from the pandemic, but there are other excuses we can use. It is that phrase in the title, We know more […]
Tags: Communication · Ethics · Science · Thinking
Don’t Try So Hard
November 9th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we are trying so hard that we fail to notice the simple and wonderful things right in front of us. Person A: I don’t see. It can’t find it. That idea, that concept, that thing that I’m trying to write. Where is it? Person B: Don’t try so hard. Person A: […]
Tags: General Systems Thinking · Notice · Observation · Thinking · Work · Writing
That’s Not It!
September 28th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips One of the better things to do in a thinking meeting is to find things you don’t want to do. “That’s not it!” is one of the better things you can hear at a thinking meeting. For example, a few years or decades ago—I lose track—I was standing at the white board […]
Tags: Ideas · Meetings · Success · Thinking · Visibility