January 12th, 2026
“Engineers discover from good presenters that the audience is a design constraint—ignore it and the message fails validation testing.” — Nancy Duarte from her book Resonate Engineers treat the world like a big lab notebook….

January 5th, 2026
“If you don’t explicitly control requirements creep, it will control you.” – Karl Wiegers in Software Requirements Scope creep is when the original requirements on which the design was based change, requiring…

December 28th, 2025
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” — Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People When designing a system, engineers must first establish customer operational requirements before defining…

December 22nd, 2025
“Meetings are a symptom of bad oranization. The fewer meetings, the better.” — Peter Drucker, management legend Engineers want to engineer. They don’t want to be stuck in meetings. Some meetings are necessary….

December 15th, 2025
“Vision trumps all other senses.” — John Medina, Brain Rules You have undoubtedly posted on social media. As a technical professional, you probably post to LinkedIn. Let me ask you a question. When you view posts on…

December 9th, 2025
“Clarity in explanation is the first test of understanding.” — Herbert A. Simon, Nobel laureate in decision sciences Have you ever seen quizzical faces on the part of your audience when you are delivering your technical…

December 1st, 2025
“In technical storytelling, evidence carries the narrative; in non-technical storytelling, the narrative carries the experience.” – Carmine Gallo in Talk Like TED We’ve all heard it. Telling stories during our presentations…

November 24th, 2025
“The best speakers won’t compete with AI—they’ll collaborate with it, then elevate the parts only humans can deliver.” — Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford Digital Economy Lab. Public speaking in the age of AI feels a bit like…