Engineering

Engineering is a wonderful combination of physics, mathematics, statistics, probabilities, incentives, and more. Many of the terms, such as margin of safety, have been adopted far beyond engineering and serve as the bedrock for entire industries.

These ideas are important on their own, but as important is coming to think like an engineer – someone who thinks in systems, who understands how things are tied together, how trade-offs, redundancy, scaling effects, and more might impact the overall design and outcome (Systems Thinking).