by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is much good in the act of sitting down with another person and explaining to them what I think I am doing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It isn’t always easy to explain to another person what I am about to do. It is, however, a good use of time. That act usually shows me what I am doing and if it is a good idea or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Years ago, the person sat across a small table from me. He was to describe a new program that was about to commence. He looked at me. Before he opened his mouth, it hit him. This was a bad idea that was not going to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a simple moment. All the great ideas, all the great conversation held in a closed group, when pushed out into another arena with other persons melted and evaporated. Nothing remained. Nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A worthwhile exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I guess there is much that could be written about this. Conversations among a cloistered group are suspect. The light of day exposes cracks in concepts. The metaphors are endless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Find someone who hasn’t heard my idea. Find someone who is smarter than me. Find someone who has no stake in the outcome. Sit across a small table. Look them in the eye. Explain myself. Perhaps I will understand myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips There is much good in the act of sitting down with another person and explaining to them what I think I am doing. It isn’t always easy to explain to another person what I am about to do. It is, however, a good use of time. That act usually shows me what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,293,43,419,306],"tags":[154,294,165,420,307],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-concepts","category-ideas","category-talk","category-visibility","tag-communication","tag-concepts","tag-ideas","tag-talk","tag-visibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}