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It's amusing to think about what the technical hiring process would have been like if it were to happen now. "Need 10+ years of experience in nuclear detonation device."

I'm sure everyone has worked with engineers who might be 10x on their own but drag the team down being inflexible or insisting on solving the wrong problem. I like the saying that …

This is fantastic to see - I've been thinking about the need for something like this for a while. I think there are two markets for this and I feel like you are already addressing …

Wow - that was painful to read because I can relate so much. Thanks for sharing. Another aspect of such dysfunction is the diffusion of responsibility that comes with it. The stubb…

I recommend this essay often to people, especially in a start up. When someone describes their organization as being "flat", it's often a red flag because it means that there are u…

Thanks for sharing!

I understand there is updates being made to the space export control rules ( https://www.space.commerce.gov/new-space-export-control-rule... ) regarding space/satellite components …

Woah - this is strange. This was posted yesterday but I see that the timestamp has changed so it's only 4 hours old now. The timestamps for the comments seem to have changed also.

You're absolutely right on both accounts - it did work to engage us and that I would rather that such posts don't get upvoted. Thanks for your understanding. :)

Fair enough. I feel like I've been seeing a lot of questions on Reddit along this line that comes off as very low effort to generate engagements so that's really the reason behind …

I think this is as meaningful as the question "what's the best food you've ever eaten?", which is to say, it's not a very meaningful question.

Like many start-ups, the company that I work with has developed its own definitions and terminologies that are unintelligible to outsiders. I experienced this before and found it v…

I never got to ask this as an interview question, but I always thought it would be interesting to ask - 'if you were wrong, would you want to know?' Not on any particular topic but…

Interesting to know - thanks for the info. Strange to think that something designed for 'known, understandable, repeatable work' got adopted by software development.

Not an issue if one can do both but when there's a conflict, a great engineering firm will prioritize safety & quality over profit, whereas a business will prioritize profit & stoc…

Wonder how 'Sprint', 'Scrum', 'Kanban' etc. all evolved out this? I really can't understand how it went from 'individuals and interactions over processes and tools' became formaliz…

Yep - certainly lessons learned through painful experiences. Supply chain management is incredibly challenging and it's interesting to see one school of thought moving away to vert…

The way the project was structured, it was in the interest of everyone to succeed since everyone paid for their own development cost and only made money when the planes were sold. …

Can confirm. I worked as Airbus' tier 1 supplier and they were even accompanying us to manage our own supplier, which in hind-sight, ensured that things like this didn't happen.

This was the practice of 'configuration management' - I mentioned it in another thread but a lot of this is discussed in the book 'The Secret of Apollo'. It's a quite a good read a…

Another book that I enjoyed on the topic - "The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs". This also comes to the same conclusion that it was th…

It reallly depends on what problem you're solving - I don't think there is a generic answer unfortunately. If there is a specific industry that you're targeting and you've reached …

ChatGPT has already saved me from hours of Googling when I'm trying to find out how to do certain things. It almost feels magical - I don't have to read through half-dozen slightly…

I think the word 'tip' should be replaced with the word 'subsidize' on these payment prompt machines. Quite absurd practice that I really wish we can move away from as a society.

If you're going to note his credentials as a physist & Caltech president, you should also note that he was also employed by BP as the oil and gas company’s Chief Scientist from 200…