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Totally agree and thank you for your service.
Commented Apr 6, 2012 on Williams as Redskins' coach would not have ended well at Rich Tandler's Real Redskins
Williams as Redskins' coach would not have ended well
The Gregg Williams audio that is going viral right now was recorded by a filmmaker named Sean Pamphilon. He was working on a project about Steve Gleason, a former Saint who is suffering from ALS. Pamphilon spent a lot of time around the team in the course of making the Gleason film. And he tol...
What you're hitting on is a general engineering approach to everything - precision and specific ways to accomplish stuff. Sweat the details - thats what any good engineer will do because a small oversight will have you in some lab for days on end reverse engineering and tracking down what happened.
I'm the first to bag on MIT and the types of folks that come out of there (i.e. bag on myself), but I have to disagree with this generalization and from experience over the last (almost) 20 years say that what you're seeing is an ENGINEERING attitude, not specific to MIT.
Now had you said MIT didn't teach social skills, politics in business, business networking, and other soft skills to help you be a better business person - I'm with you 100%... :)
Commented Oct 27, 2009 on How MIT Didn't Prepare Me For a Startup, Part 1 at Adam Smith's Blog
How MIT Didn't Prepare Me For a Startup, Part 1
I was at MIT for a few days last week for the MIT Startup Bootcamp. One thing I love about MIT entrepreneurs is how scrappy and motivated they are. Compared to the iconic facebook chasing social media west coast entrepreneurs, these guys are Rocky Balboas. They stay in the game when others w...
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