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📦 THINKING INSIDE THE BOX.
📖 This #EngineersWeek, I'm pleased to announce 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗟𝗨𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗫: 𝗘𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗙 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗡 𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 (@wwnorton, April 26, 2026), drawn from "Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World."
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#engineering #Communication
NAE is pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative, with support from @NSF and in partnership with the @stonybrooku Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science to engage engineering leaders and informal education partner sites in engineering communication programming.
Guru Madhavan retweeted
Friend @BioengineerGM makes the brilliant point that "engineers are peer-reviewed by reality." – at Sundridge, South East
⚙️ On Friction-Maxxing
Glad and grateful to receive a mention in the @FT View by the Editorial Board in the @ftweekend.
#engineering #friction
ft.com/content/993a41e7-8bc6…
Guru Madhavan retweeted
Your body is not a machine ft.trib.al/MshpceD
🦾YOUR BODY IS NOT A MACHINE
My latest for the @FT is about letting go of machine metaphors in health & medicine. Taking living things apart has given us immense knowledge. But because such reductionism has worked so well, we can easily miss its limits.
ft.com/content/360e9a56-287d…
What keeps a nation free?
My latest for @IEEESpectrum, feat. JMW Turner: declaring freedom is only the beginning. Engineering it requires the courage to innovate and the discipline to maintain what we build.
👉🏼 spectrum.ieee.org/us-enginee…
@IEEEUSA @IEEEorg @IEEESSIT @IEEEhistory
🖼️ The Fighting Temeraire, Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838. The National Gallery, London; Elizabeth Traynor
#engineering #freedom #innovation #maintenance
📋The 19th-century guide to running an effective meeting.
“Robert’s Rules of Order” turns 150 this year. In the @FT @FinancialTimes, I wrote about what that history says about AI systems now marketed as consensus brokers.
#engineering #meetings
➡️ ft.com/content/a01dd0e8-b8da…
🕵️ "Social engineering" got tainted by its association with authoritarian regimes and later with scammers. So we buried it—and the practice carried on under friendlier names. In @IEEESpectrum, I argue why reclaiming the term matters. We can't contest what we can't see—and name.
Francis Bacon died stuffing a chicken with snow, killed by his own experiment--400 years ago this month. ❄️
His scientific method? Inspired by engineers.
My latest for @IEEESpectrum:
spectrum.ieee.org/francis-ba…
@IEEEorg @IEEEUSA
#engineering #science #history #philosophy
"In engineering, you are peer-reviewed by reality."
I once asked my friend, the engineer Guru Madhavan, why engineering faculties at most universities were outliers in containing more than a small minority of conservatives and political moderates.
✍️ Rory Sutherland
Article | spectator.com/article/why-en…
My new @FT piece on the engineer who scheduled the apocalypse for his own birthday—and what it reveals about the strange psychology of doomsday deadlines, and why they differ from the ones that actually govern our lives.
ft.com/content/32564d69-fd83…
#engineering #systemsthinking
🚀 My latest in @IEEESpectrum on Robert Goddard: from innovation to isolation, and how leaders can escape the alpha trap—when the stubbornness that helps a pioneer survive skepticism begins to hinder collaboration as the work grows.
#engineering @IEEEorg
spectrum.ieee.org/robert-god…
🔧 Engineers see friction as a design feature, not a flaw. A shock absorber adds weight and complexity—yet without it, the suspension shakes itself apart. Not all resistance is waste, some of it protects systems from their own speed. #engineering
Should we aim for a frictionless world? ft.trib.al/uTtUSRF | opinion
Guru Madhavan retweeted
(1/3) Guru Madhavan (@BioengineerGM) reverences the world and all that is in it. Guru is an engineer, but his conception of engineering is more vast than we typically assign to the role.
🧠 The confinement in his blue box gave trainees the consciousness of the many angles from which a problem can be approached. "If you are going to build these things," Link said, "you have to have the integrity to test them yourself."
📘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗟𝗨𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗫 reinvigorates the legacy of an engineer who transformed our access to the skies, the stars, and the sea.
Preorder: wwnorton.com/books/978132411…
And thank you, as always. 🙏🏼
#engineering #innovation #creativity #society #aviation #engineersweek #eweek2026
