{"id":4176,"date":"2024-07-25T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4176"},"modified":"2024-06-29T07:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T12:28:23","slug":"in-praise-of-embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/07\/in-praise-of-embarrassment\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Embarrassment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I am happy to learn that embarrassment still exists. We still aspire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently read an article about how people are not asking Siri and the like questions in public by voice. They type the questions instead of saying them aloud. They are a bit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/6\/22\/24180362\/type-to-siri-ios-18-ai-assistants\">embarrassed to let other people hear their questions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wonderful. Great news. I am encouraged. Embarrassment still exists!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We still aspire. We still want to do better. We still don&#8217;t want to admit our silly little mistakes that plague us. Let&#8217;s move upwards (wherever upwards is, but it isn&#8217;t here).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I find embarrassment to be a good quality. It is humble. It says, &#8220;I can do much better than this.&#8221; Let&#8217;s do much better than this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I am happy to learn that embarrassment still exists. We still aspire. I recently read an article about how people are not asking Siri and the like questions in public by voice. They type the questions instead of saying them aloud. They are a bit embarrassed to let other people hear their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,386,316,433,340,419,50,306],"tags":[171,387,317,436,342,420,172,307],"class_list":["post-4176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-appearances","category-improvement","category-self","category-simple","category-talk","category-thinking","category-visibility","tag-adapting","tag-appearances","tag-improvement","tag-self","tag-simple","tag-talk","tag-thinking","tag-visibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","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=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4177,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions\/4177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}