For the past years I’ve been spending a lot of my time thinking (and writing) about the human side of engineering. Topics like leadership, management, psychology, humanity. The trivial things. But I cracked that nut. Done. There’s just not enough space in this post to fit the answer.
The holidays are coming, for those that celebrate. For this occasion, let me share one of my own family’s old holiday traditions. One that, I have to admit, was recklessly ruined by uncle Melv in the late ‘60s. We don’t speak of uncle Melv anymore in our family.
“So, I stand in front of the class to introduce myself and guess what: nobody knew they were going to have a new teacher! Can you believe it?” My wife started a new job as an English teacher a few weeks ago. Her onboarding was somewhat bumpy. “You know, you
“Well, that’s pretty silly, they should just...” I’m sorry, but let me stop you right there. Just don’t. No, Zef. No. Before you share your wisdom and all your amazing insight, let me tell you a bit about yourself — or any other human for that matter. Yes,
“I got up and then I found a berry. And then I ate it. And then I went hunting with Andre. And then Andre was killed by a Mammoth. And then I was sad. And then I found another berry. And then I ate it. And then I felt better.
Krav Maga is a self-defense sport originally developed by the Israeli military. It takes a “no-frills” approach to self defense. Whereas in Eastern martial arts like Kung-Fu or Aikido, one may learn elaborate, beautiful, dance-like responses to an attack, in Krav Maga you simply learn to kick ‘em in the
While people differ in many ways, there’s at least one constraint that unites us all: time. Whether you were born an third-world country or The OC, whether you are tall or short, senior or junior — your number of hours in a day, days in a week, weeks in a
A few years ago, I started to dabble with Scratch with my oldest son. Scratch is a visual programming environment that has a nice and low barrier to entry. You visit a web site and start dragging and dropping blocks around, hit a Run button to instantly see your changes
“Dude, you have blood spatters on your shirt...” That’s what I should have said as I entered the surgeon’s office last Friday for some minor surgery. I didn’t. Now, we all realize that surgery involves cutting. There is going to be blood involved. However, greeting your next
As my oldest son (10) walks downstairs, he sighs deeply and audibly. “That was quite something!” He is doing his usual dramatic my life is so tough thing again. “Tell us, what is this challenging achievement of yours?” “I put my laundry in my closet. All of it.” “You mean
“So this company Zef mentioned, the one where his new boss told him on his first day that half the people should be fired, that’s us, right?” I was catching up with a former colleague this week. One of his team members had read my post, and assumed it
We had an interesting training on entrepreneurial behaviors at the company this week. We were asked to rank the following behaviors from “Most often” to “Least often” used. We were given them unordered, but this is how I ordered them for myself: 1. Reflect 2. Desire to have an impact