Why Put A TPMS On My Tractor? Blame An Engineering Algorithm
Unless you own an older John Deere tractor with a canopy, don’t expect this to provide detailed instructions on modifying your own tractor. On the other hand, if the title lured you in with the promise of peeking inside an engineer’s brain, welcome aboard. The odds...
Married To An Engineer: Change Is Inevitable, For You
I have an agreement with my Wife, anything I publish involving her gets her approval first. Since this post is a result of a discussion she was having with a friend, not married to an engineer, about metrics and how marriage to me has changed her appreciation of...
Trust but verify. It’s more important than ever in the AI age.
Years ago, I led a team of exceptional engineers supporting production. A newly introduced product was averaging 30 hours to assemble instead of the 5 hours management had confidently estimated during one of their “everything is under control” meetings. We weren’t...
The Ticking Time Bomb Effect Of AI About To Destroy Our Society
Staring at my computer’s display, I’m watching a Python program run exactly to the specifications I wrote before I started coding. No debugging. No mysterious crashes. No three-hour hunts for a missing semicolon buried in line 1400. It just worked. And instead of...
What Hobbies Should This Engineer Consider After Retirement?
I don’t know when or how it started, but the drive to customize and brag about the results has been with humans long before I was born. Today we usually call it a hobby, something that has become increasingly important to me in my retirement. Age, improved...From the Doghouse -It’s all about them
A look at dogs having fun!
Short Stories
With posts like these, ever wonder what kind of fiction I would write?
