Awkward Engineer - Blog
Book Summary: Built to Last
I read Built to Last with the knowledge that Jim Collins had worked with Jeff Bezos in Amazon's early days, and it's clear to me after reading thi...
Book Summary: When Coffee and Kale Compete
When Coffee and Kale Compete is going on my recommend list. It takes a lot of ideas from other books and clarifies and refines them. It even calls ...
Book Summary: Turn the Ship Around
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I want to highly recommend Turn the Ship Around. In a nutshell, the book is about intentionally designing systems into an organization or c...
Collegiate Level Popsicle Sticks with the AwkEng
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Today's post is about designing a collegiate level course in popsicle stick bridge building. The idea has been in my head for years, but th...
The AwkEng is an Art Sleuth
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Today's post is about art and a proud dad moment. I do have a short list of posts I want to write, including one on Voltmeter Clock BOM scr...
The AwkEng Thinks About Vickrey Auctions
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Today's post is about Vickrey Auctions, and figuring out how to make it feasible to run ultra-small batches of Clocks. The Voltmeter C...
The AwkEng Thinks About Pay Scale Systems
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Since reading Radical Candor, I've been thinking about performance reviews and pay scale systems. The punchline is that I don't think that ...
The AwkEng Sets Up a High Efficiency Work Cell
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Today's post continues the previous Yak Shaving theme from reorganizing the basement, but this time it's with the intention of revisiting t...
AwkEng Kicks off the Year with a Mini Book Report
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I'm kicking the year off with a not so mini book report of stuff that I've read in the last several months, listed in order of recommend...
The AwkEng Sees the Forest and the Trees
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I'm still forming some ideas in this post, but wanted to share some hacks for Trello and thoughts on leveraging user story maps. The punchl...
The AwkEng Keeps in Touch
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Today's post is about the system I use to keep in touch with former coworkers, colleagues, clients, and others. The punchline is that this ...
The AwkEng Builds a Basement Inventory System, Part 2
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Yak Shaving continues this week with development of a basement inventory system. Admittedly, I could probably look for an off the shelf sol...