ADVENTURES IN HOUSESITTING

Learning to Say “I Don’t Know”

Lessons from a boat that serve us in the workplace

I really should give engineers more credit. One of my brothers — a talented engineer — jokes about how cameras are always off in his telepresence team meetings (do non-engineers use the word “telepresence?”) and that you know an engineer is an extrovert if they look at your shoes when talking to you instead of their own. So it was I’ve assumed those in the profession pick up emotional cues as well as a hippopotamus can pick…