#engineering culture
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What Getting Things Done Gets Wrong
David Allen’s Getting Things Done is a modern classic — but his method has a blind spot.
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Non-Zero Overhead : What DARPA Gets Right
We define suboptimization as elegantly solving the wrong problem
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Killer Application: The Surprising Correlation Between Engineering Education and Terrorism
It’s not that terrorists are desperate for tech-talent, it’s that engineering education breeds the type of mindset that’s conducive to extremism.
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Talking Shop
Talking shop is fine, but integrating the wider world into your shop-talk is even better.
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The Case Against “Deep Work”
The notion of deep work provides a great excuse for not getting shit done.
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“Scientists & Engineers”
In science, if you know what you are doing you shouldn’t be doing it. In engineering, if you don’t know what you are doing, you shouldn’t be doing it.