{"id":3657,"date":"2022-05-30T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2022-05-11T07:41:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:41:31","slug":"the-buddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/05\/the-buddy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buddy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It helps to have someone standing next to you. This is a simple, old, and often overlooked aid to working better.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A buddy is someone standing next to you whom you assume knows what they are doing. Often, a few moments later, you both realize that you both assumed the other is the one who knows what they are doing. In fact, neither knows what they are doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite have two people standing together when neither knows what they are doing, the situation works to a good conclusion. And how can that be? Zero plus zero equals zero. Sometimes, however, in the state of human endeavors the zero sum becomes something far greater than zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something about us folks that having a buddy next to us changes everything. Logic does not apply. Math does not apply. The buddy overrules all else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is at this point in the blog post where the writer offers insight into how this actually works. Sorry. Not today. Not on this blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have no clue as to how the buddy changes the outcome. I only relate this as I have seen it work well countless times in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It helps to have someone standing next to you. This is a simple, old, and often overlooked aid to working better. A buddy is someone standing next to you whom you assume knows what they are doing. Often, a few moments later, you both realize that you both assumed the other is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386,105,361,123,316,6,434,10],"tags":[387,219,362,124,317,129,437,133],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-competence","category-expertise","category-group","category-improvement","category-observation","category-other","category-people","tag-appearances","tag-competence","tag-expertise","tag-group","tag-improvement","tag-observation","tag-other","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","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=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}