Category: The daily blog – For Engineers (and Other Humans)
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I am sharing today a schedule I use in my work every time the noise from distractions gets too much and/or I don’t actually think I am making…
I was taught to start my music practice by playing my scales. Starting with your scales: Starting with your scales doesn’t just apply to instruments. It applies to any…
The wind was getting up. The waves were starting to blow in from different directions. The sea scape seemed to be changing at random. The day before, the…
Today’s post picks up on yesterday’s theme of riding the waves of human energy in our work. The idea is to create a cycle of working that tunes…
I spent most of yesterday afternoon up to my middle in waves learning to surf. (I’ve got a long way to go). So it is no coincidence that…
Jim Crace’s book Harvest provides fascinating portrait of rural life in England just before the start of the Industrial Revolution. What is so striking is the way the…
One of earliest childhood memories of travel is riding in the back of the car driving along a motorway in mountains in the north of Italy. To traverse…
My favourite board game is Go. A 19 by 19 board. White stones versus black. You win by surrounding your opponent’s stones before they surround yours. The game…
For two minutes we sat there on Zoom and said nothing. We had just concluded a period of intense conversation. Thrashing out details. And then words escaped me….
Do you work with metal? Wood? No, I work with knowledge. I mine it, I process it, I chop it up into tiny pieces, I study it, I…
At the start of my how to have ideas workshops, I ask where do people have their best ideas. People often say things like running, taking the dog…
Engineers have announced today some astounding new breakthroughs in their latest version of i. This technology is completely free and open-source.
Dear reader, Thank you for following my writing. It means a lot to me. To mark my 18th year of blogging, I am writing 100 posts in 100…