About This Site
The scope of this website revolves around four parts:
- Engineering: traditional fields like civil, mechanical, electronic, process, computer, industrial, also referred to STEM engineering.
- Programming: actually the broader software development discipline together with its practices and technologies.
- Mathematics: applied maths and how it's used in engineering and programming.
- Leadership: how effective leadership looks like, the fathership sense of leadership and the importance of trust.
There is thus the technical side where much of the content focuses on the junction of engineering, programming and mathematics. The motivation for this combination is that new dual discipline career paths are emerging and early adopters will have a major advantage. But there is also the human relational topic that is deeply integrated in engineering and software development.
Technical excellence can be, and is very often, stifled due to detrimental suspicion or competition amongst colleagues (horizontal) and distrust between employees and leadership (vertical). Additionally, the growing lack of mentorship and elder figures watering young potential is leaving a wake of under-developed professionals. Technical abilities always go hand-in-hand with human relationships.
The heart of this website (its jobs in terms of Clayton Christensen's language) is to:
- Inspire: To show what is possible and present a path-to-entry to anyone interested. Make the reader realise he or she can understand and implement something they did not think they could.
- Empower: To show how and where to start, by explaining complex topics in incremental and clear visual ways.
- Guide: To highlight the importance of leaders and encourage them to humbly draw and raise those coming after them, and be proud of that. Not by dominating but by interest, understanding and calling out raw potential that only they can see and lift up.
Item Classes
The website presents articles and code bases. Items can only be part of one class.
Categories
Items are categorized into engineering, programming, mathematics and leadership. Items can fall in multiple categories.
Article Versions
Articles are considered works-in-progress and are therefore versioned with major, minor and patch version numbers. If the major version is 0 it still needs to be completed.