I went on that journey myself a few weeks ago! Iceman is was totally right.

Director.

Also, those were the benefits I was anticipating when I started the practice. I also found that it gave me more credibility and ‘soft-power’ as a leader. Staff had more trust that I understood them and could represent them and their needs effectively.

I’ve found enormous value as an engineering leader carving out 3 hrs on Friday afternoons to pair with a developer on their current project. It gives me so much context on how they are doing, how the team is doing, am how the project is going, what the new hotness is, and, sometimes I can even help.

This is incredible

I appreciate these threads. A friend of mine asked me about getting an open-air laser for etching designs onto small metal surfaces, and I was quickly able to drop the giant hammer of eye and inhalation safety in their dreams.

Our child reported sticking her hand out of the window last night and feeling hail. And they mentioned snow..So it could be…

I see many ’avid drivers’ get very angry when pedestrians assert their right of way in crosswalks. I’d like this to be a part of our driving tests and failing to yield to pedestrians should lead to loss of license.

Maybe speed-limit signs themselves are also engineering malpractice? Let’s construct the streets around schools and in neighbourhoods with kids to only support speeds below 30km/h.

I had a math prof in college sophomore year (RIP HPD Moody) who believed a test failed if anyone got a perfect score. We had a very bright frosh in the class; and life got much better when we figured that out that every test had a question just for him. Fun tests too, I still have them.

Or, we, as a society, could just give everyone e-bikes and call it a day.

I suspect none of the workers have California drivers licenses. We should insist that so-called autonomous cars demonstrate object-permanence (a child who disappears between cars may reappear on the road) and navigate novel terrain (construction sites, crash scenes) without a network connection.

This joke tickles my nerd brain along at least 3 different axes…

Seconding. Random Acts is a very good and very spooky read.

Yay! Thank you Dave. And we can feel it getting around Victoria.

If nothing else, we might start getting safer designs because the staff get tired of being paged in the middle of the night to go inspect the scene.

I visited the scene where a truck driver struck and killed a pedestrian in Victoria 18 months ago: plenty of police, but no city engineering. A helpful next step might be to have city engineering visit the scene of every collision and produce recommendations for remediating engineering controls.

Ground the entire fleet until we can install remedial controls?

I’m really enjoying reading this book (even if it often makes me sad or angry!) but I’m also watching Pluribus and keep wondering if Carol would be a lot happier if she didn’t live in such a car dependent, poorly designed cul-de-sac?

On Bainbridge island, they did some simulations and concluded that every resident to prepare for 2 weeks before aid arrived.

Sigh. If we have to spend money on car infrastructur, let’s spend it on engineering controls to prevent accidents. That will help us manage health care costs and extend lifespans.

Yes! Please plant trees in the space formerly given to hazards.

I noticed that after I’d posted. How many “medical” events are we going to tolerate hurting innocent people?

Yes! And can we add some administrative controls to detect this condition in other drivers. And provide alternative transportation options for people too sick to drive safely. And slow traffic on oak Bay Ave so someone who has a medical event is driving more slowly.

This is a nice thread.

please, immediately install bollards and chicanes. Let’s install engineering controls to reduce the hazard and separate people outside of cars from car traffic. Oak Bay Ave is stupidly wide and fast.

I had a fantastic time visiting the Jatun Sacha biological station circa 1993 and a cursory web search suggests they are still active in rain forest preservation and study. I'd go back there in a heartbeat. Also I have fond memories of Baños.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.