Right and Wrong

Right and Wrong

by | Mar 16, 2024 | Thoughts & Musings

It’s Wrong To Be Right Being right is based upon knowledge and experience and is often provable. Knowledge comes from the past, so it’s safe. It is also out of date. It’s the opposite of originality. Experience is built from solutions to old situations and problems....
Why Small Can Be Big The 1% effect

Why Small Can Be Big The 1% effect

by | Mar 9, 2024 | Thoughts & Musings

How about the relentless commitment to a strategy of the aggregation of marginal gains – the philosophy of searching for a tiny margin of improvement in everything you do? It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value...
It’s Up To You

It’s Up To You

by | Mar 2, 2024 | Thoughts & Musings

They say nobody is indispensable. Yet, organizations go to great lengths to retain employees who are seen as critical for their operations. So, how do you make yourself indispensable at work? How do you grow in places you never thought you would? 1. Do work that...
God Made a Farmer FFA Week

God Made a Farmer FFA Week

by | Feb 22, 2024 | Thoughts & Musings

In honor and celebration of all past and present FFA members, let us never forget the value of Agriculture and the American Farmer. FFA – developing our future innovators and leaders in agriculture And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and...
Proverbs for Young Engineers

Proverbs for Young Engineers

by | Feb 18, 2024 | Thoughts & Musings

PROVERBS FOR YOUNG ENGINEERS and Some Older Ones, Too By Philip Swain Editor, Power Magazine 1. The ability to see the obvious is a rare and valuable talent. 2. In the engineering world, brilliance doesn’t rate unless tied to common sense, character, and...