{"id":4140,"date":"2024-05-27T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2024-05-04T07:28:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T12:28:44","slug":"that-wont-work-or-it-shouldnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/05\/that-wont-work-or-it-shouldnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"That Won\u2019t Work or It Shouldn\u2019t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There are techniques, tools, methodologies, etc. that won&#8217;t work\u2014until they do. They shouldn&#8217;t work\u2014until they do. What is happening here?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many years ago, we were sitting in a conference room watching a presentation video on a television. The television has a cathode ray tube with a curved glass cover (I wrote that this was <em>many years ago<\/em>). The display glass was covered with dust. I left the room and returned with several wet paper towels. Just before touching the screen, someone shouted, &#8220;Hey, don&#8217;t do that. That won&#8217;t work. That&#8217;s the wrong way to clean a screen!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cleaned the television screen with wet paper towels. It worked just fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You shouldn&#8217;t clean a television screen with wet paper towels. It won&#8217;t work. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You shouldn&#8217;t clean a chalk board with wet paper towels. It won&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You shouldn&#8217;t clean an erasable white board by writing on it. It won&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You shouldn&#8217;t document a system with a pencil and paper. It won&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You shouldn&#8217;t talk to a person in person face to face. It won&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list goes on and on. There are many techniques you shouldn&#8217;t use to accomplish tasks as those techniques won&#8217;t work\u2014until they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, the wrong technique gives 80% good results. Sometimes, the wrong technique gives 98.6% good results. Those techniques don&#8217;t give 100% good results, so they are the wrong technique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, some of us have never achieved 100% on anything in our lives. Therefore, we accept what we achieve and keep moving forward. Someone in the audience, who maybe achieved 100% at some point in their life, will scream. Ignore them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh wait, ignoring a scream won&#8217;t work\u2014until it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips There are techniques, tools, methodologies, etc. that won&#8217;t work\u2014until they do. They shouldn&#8217;t work\u2014until they do. What is happening here? Many years ago, we were sitting in a conference room watching a presentation video on a television. 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