Over the years I have interviewed and hired a good number of mechanical designers, and I have trained many more who were hired by someone else. At the end of almost every training course, one person waits until the room…
I keep a notebook. It is not the one with my to-do lists; it is a worn, coffee-stained book in which, for more than thirty years, I have written down every mistake that cost somebody time or money in a…
My first job in this profession started at a drafting board. I had a parallel rule, a set of technical pens, a bottle of erasing fluid and a supervisor who could spot a line that was 0.3 mm too thick…
