Until I became a software engineer at 32, my whole professional life was organized around the written word. I was a historian, one who was firmly anchored in books and archives and articles. I ...

Systems creep quietly destroys productivity by piling too many tools, platforms, and workflows onto already overloaded teams.

Predictions of mass unemployment miss a deeper concern: new technologies often expand control over workers rather than freeing them.

Set-up machine to run production order using defined tools and fixtures, verification of program, and documentation review (drawings, job pac ...