Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips According to some arbitrary scheme, we are in the year two thousand and twenty. Let’s let it be. My eight year old granddaughter told me that it was the year 20 20, “the year of perfect vision.” I can live with that as she is eight years old and was born with […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Yet another reason that writing in a weblog or a paper log is helpful. I find many benefits to writing in a log whether that be in a paper book or in an Internet thing like this one. One benefit is that whatever thought I write is now out of my head. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Jeff Bezos and Amazon have received much praise for their use of written essays at meetings instead of PowerPoint and bullet points. Great, but not new. This is a good piece about Amazon’s use of written memos at meetings. Keep the thinking focused. Don’t waste time. Think. Communicate. Excellent. Great. I love […]

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by Dwayne Phillips One of the reasons I write (there are many) is that persons simply grow weary of the sound of my voice. I like to tell stories—some true, some not so. There are a few people in my life, see, e.g., my wife of 35+ years, who have already heard most of them. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips How can we communicate better? First, let’s try to communicate better. How can I communicate better? How can I say this better? Look for a better word Look for a better word or two Look for a better phrase Look for a better arrangement of thoughts Look for a better sentence Look […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Want to write a book? Want to write another book? Okay, do it.   I am writing a book every day. Most people call it a journal. No, I won’t “publish” it. No, no one else will buy it. No, no one else will even read it. That doesn’t matter. I wrote […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Brevity and clarity are apt companions. The trouble is, they aren’t frequent companions.

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by Dwayne Phillips Trying to edit the writing of yourself or someone else? Especially trying to shorten the writing? Simply delete the last phrase of a sentence the last sentence of a paragraph the last paragraph of a page the last page of a chapter the last chapter of a book the last section of […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes if we change one little word to another littler word, the message is received. I write this post from a local coffee shop. I have been coming to this local coffee shop to viewing the Internet and write various things for about ten years. Every now and then, one of the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Please hire some editors in your business. They are need in many more ways than most persons expect. This is a post about editors—the human variety who read and change what others write. First, we have editors who collect writings from a variety of persons and combine them into one writing. Their […]

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