Month: March 2016

What better time to talk about schedule slip than at the end of the month. Every place that I have ever worked or worked with […]

It may be difficult for younger readers to imagine, but we once got our instructions verbally from our supervisors. Yes, in a time before e-mail […]

After posting about the difficulty in keeping my “inner engineer” under control outside the workplace, several readers admitted to the same trouble. This brings to […]

Aphorisms, pithy statements of fact, are a favorite of mine. They appeal because when you need to remember things you cannot always count on the […]

  I do not recall this being brought up during my years at Marquette University’s (MU) engineering school, but the night school crowd was probably […]

There have been a few times in my life when I wished I could turn off my internal engineer and just be a regular guy. […]

  We have all seen the Internet meme of politicians wearing corporate logos so the public will know who their backers are. I would like […]

“Wall Street predicted nine of the last FIVE recessions,” Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize winner in economics, 1966. We get a lot more economic news these […]

In 1971, the American gear business was far different from today. I am unaware of any modern company with a formal gear cutter’s apprenticeship; at […]

After my first year of college I decided it was time to get a real job. My grades were great but full-time school and 40 […]