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The Impossibility of Making an Elite Engineer (2017)

First published June 2017.

Part is bias—from childhood through education through a career some talent is repressed based on gender, melanin, or just the vagaries of geography. Elite engineers need to succeed enough to maintain confidence and initiative but they also need to fail enough to question themselves and their assumptions when doing so is valuable. Elite engineers are also self-directed learners, trusting their curiosity as a compass pointing towards future growth.

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