Challenges come up every day. Even easy stuff. Today, we had a customer request to put two electronic components into one enclosure. For context this is extremely unusual and to my knowledge, never been done before. But instead of just answering the email myself, I took the opportunity to give my back up colleague a … Read more
I encountered this question on a random Facebook post. And perusing the comments revealed so many ways to solve the problem. First up, the “classic” method I was taught to do by paper. 7 + 8 = 5, carry the 1 over, making 2 + 4 + 1 = 7. So the Answer is 75. … Read more
Right before a Falcon Launch in 2015, Elon Musk decided to host an AMA(Ask Me Anything) on Reddit. While most of the questions and answers revolves around the science of the rockets naturally, there was a gem of a quote about learning: “One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of … Read more
Parkinson Law says that work expands to fill the time that is allotted to it. If you give yourself 2 hours to clean the kitchen, chances are, you will take all two hours to clean the kitchen. We’re really good at procrastinating. So how do we combat this? Make realistic deadlines that challenge us. Not … Read more
“Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents” — Epictetus. I’ve been guilty of this. at one point I was reading 2-3 personal development books per month. While it wasn’t a … Read more
It’s been a rough day and a rough week. Immediately after logging off of work at 6, I dragged my feet through a workout on Centr – Da Rulk’s Functional training: Mobility building mayhem. I put it on beginner level so I wouldn’t die and began one modified gorilla step at a time. Took a … Read more