#Engineers

Honestly I think the majority of my success in tech, outside of my cishet white woman privilege, comes from having high standards, and the perseverance to not compromise them when
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I used to think this, and then I started interviewing "actual" engineers. Most engineers in the world don't have a license, or a graduate degree. And even those that do
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This is a joke, BUT, I have a hypothesis why OS projects get names like these.Strap in. Let's talk about STEM, and art, and names.https://twitter.com/vboykis/status/1318350883684495361 To give you an idea
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1/1 Long term motivation/ satisfaction...I've written software and designed hardware that is used by thousands of engineers, and has been deployed in millions of units, enabled hundreds of entrepreneurs The
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IMHO the main role of academic engineering research is clear: the training. Teaching students to become critical research engineers to - differentiate 1st and 2nd order problems- differentiate discovery/new ideas
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Since 5G is trending (in my head), an anecode that was told to me when I visited the operations centre of a large French mobile phone operator a few years
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That reminds me ... about a year ago we posted our first open job rec. Here are some things I have observed since then.1) There is a huge, underserved pool
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THREAD-On the day I attended the Army Selection Centre, I was able to spell my name... this exempted me from the Pioneers.I had also washed shaved and could speak a
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Where can you find mentors as a software engineer or engineering manager? A thread with free & paid mentorship resources.Do you know of more places? Add a comment to the
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6 product management lessons from @cagan that resonated like woah. Lesson 1: It doesn't matter how good your engineering team is if they are not given something worthwhile to build…
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I once remember going to some meetup (when meetups we’re still a thing, when people could meet and talk and share ideas) and some engineering leader say that the way
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Coinbase has me thinking a lot about NASA in the 1960's and 1970's. In particular, NASA's approach to women and Black Americans during a deeply politically charged era of this
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For today's #MuseumFromHome: another of our #LocalHeroes, Corporal Harold Abraham, MM.Harold had been a Signaller in the Royal Engineers British Territorial Forces since 1911. When war broke out, his job
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(1/9) When you have money to burn. All problems are money problems. Trust me, I have been there. But I have learned to embrace constraints and thrive in them.A -
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“ethics training” at almost every organization I’ve worked for has meant “don’t plagiarize and record your hours correctly” and never “don’t build immoral systems”let’s dissect this a little companies want
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Legacy companies are going to struggle with AI for two reasons: 1/8 First, they are risk-averse. Deep learning models are black-box, and it’s kind of impossible to explain why a
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