James Newton wrote:
>So.. I translated that to:
>"Always document everything you do (why did you always see engineers and
>scientists with a log book?) and be ready to extract a complete history of
>actions at a moments notice. I don't care how sharp you are, at some point,
>while trying to solve a complex problem, you will realize that you don't
>remember exactly what you already tried... which means that you are
>duplicating effort, running in circles, and doomed. Also, when it really
>drops in the bucket, management WILL try to make you a scapegoat and being
>able to tell the customer exactly what you did may save your job (or get you
>a better manager or even a new job)."
>

[actually, had I "known" there was a meeting, and had I known what
it was about, and had I known I would be the primary speaker, I
could have brought the log book].

Besides abstracting the lessons, you might also have the original
parables available. Might try adding some humor to the abstractions,
too. Don't want to scare the new engineers too much. Engineering
can be fun, if you don't take the bosses too seriously. Course,
it took a few years to learn this one.
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Maybe call your page "Engineering Parables".

You might add pertinent titles - mine should have been called:
"As the Boy Scouts say - Be Prepared".

And you might try categorizing them. Dogbert made Dilbert
select his own "slot" a couple weeks ago. As I recall, list was:

empty suit, sadist, sycophant, factoid, prima donna, whiner.
[Dilbert chose empty suit].

I won't tell you my own personal selection, but maybe later
I'll tell you "The Story of the Sycophant and the Prima Donna".
[or "How to Make Smoke Come Out of the Ears of a Sycophant"].

best regards,
- DanM.