As I learned more and more about life in academia, a new monster emerged from the career questions swirling around in my head: “Am I good enough?”

When might tinkering reveal truths that your premediated design can only dream of?

To oversee is not to see it all.

There is a power in process that will stay with you beyond the success or failure or the particular project facilitated by that process.

You might get a handful of listeners, you might get one, you will start (and might end) with none. Consider doing it anyway…

Multitasking will sit upon your most salivary pedestal, blinding you to the unmounted value of doing one thing at a time.

Abstraction is a human superpower. It’s thinking, sideways. The process that enables us to condense complex, multipart objects into simpler blueprints. With abstraction, we can automate the boring stuff under the push of a button. But what happens if the button breaks?

The conflict between time and money will turn in the mind of anyone whose basic needs are already met.

Big ideas need small actions. So, how do we get started on those ambitious goals without being scared off?

Not every piece of writing can be a winner. It doesn’t need to be…

Depending on where you’re from, expressing a particular emotion is harder than you think. It’s even harder to spot that emotion in someone else.

Remembrance ensures that, when the last of those involved in the event have left us, a timeless opportunity remains…

Was it worth trading over 1,000 hours of your life for?

In the autumn of 2011, a light wind carried my father’s ashes from my fingertips into the sea. But it wasn’t until 30 years after the accident, when I got the chance to speak to an audience about this story, that I noticed something profound…

Safety in Chemical Manufacturing is more than a theme. It is more than a damaged reputation, more than a loss of production, more than any lawsuit, more, even, than the joint liability of incident culprit and customer…