top ten chart

top ten reasons engineers should improve time management

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#10.  Your son will stop calling you, “mister,” when you return home from work.
#9.    Watch the fat melt away from that depressing paunch you’ve developed.
#8.    Turn the tables at work so you’re in charge of your destiny.
#7.    Co-workers will stop calling you, “What’s his name?”
#6.    Enjoy rock climbing [...]

engineers married with children

time management from inside out

Overworked engineers who are married with children and who work a 24/7 lifestyle need to improve time management from inside out. While “Joe Engineer” is hunched over his laptop in his workplace cubicle at nine o’clock at night his wife is performing his job—reading the kids a bedtime story.
It’s not that [...]

engineering education

An engineer’s enemies: 24/7 and multitasking
In my upcoming e-book, Engineer’s Guide to Harnessing Time for Professional and Personal Growth, I show you how to work around the 24/7 mentality and carve out hours in your day to get a life. One thing I’ve learned while working as an engineer is that engineer’s over-engineer; they spend [...]

500 lb gorilla

An engineer, an animal trainer, and a 500 lb gorilla enter a bar. The engineer sits by the entrance, the animal trainer finds a stool at the bar, and the gorilla plops down on the pool table, disrupting play and causing a ruckus.
The bartender turns to the animal trainer and asks him who the gorilla [...]

simple mistakes

small steps; giant leaps

When I received the first copy of my recently published science fiction novel, Asmara’s Anomaly, my jubilation turned into shock when I turned to the very first page—even before the main title. At the bottom of the first page my website was listed:
http://doylematthwsnovels.com.
The printer had left out the letter “e” in my url. [...]

relieving the stigma

stig·ma
Pronunciation: ˈstig-mə
Function: noun

a. a scar left by a hot iron. b : a mark of shame or discredit <bore the stigma of cowardice> c : an identifying mark or characteristic; specifically : a specific diagnostic sign of a disease

Neil Armstrong carries the stigma that he was the first of only twelve men to ever [...]

one small step

When he first set foot on the moon in 1969 Neil Armstrong said: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
One small step…that’s all it takes. It doesn’t matter whether you are learning a language, preparing to go to the moon, or designing a new type of ipod.
Today I thought about one [...]