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Month: May 2017

Be Curious

Be Curious

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I previously talked about my 5 Design Rules to Live By, drawn from the design mind-sets from Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Today, I would like to talk about Rule 1 – being curious. Why should you care about curiosity? Curiosity is a powerful, valuable skill that can have wide ranging impacts to our lives, including many health benefits. Thanks to a phenomenon called neuroplasticity, our brains have the continuous ability to…

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5 Design Rules to Live By

5 Design Rules to Live By

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Today I would like to introduce to you what I’ve been calling the 5 Design Rules. First, here’s some background: I have a pretty long commute to work. It takes me about an hour in normal traffic to get to work and home every day. So a while back, I decided to use that time more productively by listening to more podcasts and audiobooks. That’s how I found myself listening to Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful…

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What makes a REAL engineer?

What makes a REAL engineer?

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Last year, I was sitting at a table full of women who were in some way or another involved in product development at my company. We were chatting, sharing stories about our experiences, and getting to know each other. It was a nice casual way to spend a lunch break. One woman was sharing her background. She was an engineer whose job was to do a lot of calculations and diagrams. But in the middle of explaining this, she made…

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Embarking on the Journey

Embarking on the Journey

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Welcome to the inaugural post of my blog, The Bold Engineer! Why “The Bold Engineer,” you might ask? Because there are many kinds of engineers: mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, electrical, industrial, civil, computer, audio, aerospace, naval…the list goes on and on. The number of different areas in which engineers exist is huge. And these engineers are many things: creative, curious, analytical, problem solvers, hard workers, team players. But what I’ve learned is that for any engineer to be good at…

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