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Send a text This episode is the companion episode to "The 100 year Journey from Surgeons with Reputations to Surgical Robots". It frames the value that you can takeaway for your engineering career. In this episode we discuss things such as: 1. Industry differentiation and the pressures that force it 2. Where values reveal themselves 3. Industry recognition vs. customer recognition 4. Who is rewarded under different paradigm 5. The right champions matter for technological adoption 6. The...

Send us Fan Mail Engineers have no shortage of places to spend their time, or even places to spend their careers. In an ideal world, it would be clear what your company values, in reality it isn't. Rather than lament, working on understanding how you can work in the areas that you both like and is recognized as valuable is a worthwhile effort. In this episode, I'll cover at an extremely high level how company executives look at things, so that you can do your best work AND be rewarded f...

Send us Fan Mail Brandon has been chasing a strange question for a long time: why does he love engineering simulation as much as he loves cooking, storytelling, and bowling? The answer showed up while watching the show The Bear. Underneath all of it is the same pursuit, not perfection, but mastery, the kind of deep understanding that quietly makes every decision better. This episode maps out a "reversibility spectrum," from a CAD edit you can undo in minutes to decisions you can never take ba...