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Fostering Innovation in a Post-Covid World
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What’s in your soft skill toolbox? Eli Hughes is a true full-stack developer and a co-founder of Tzero Research & Development. He joins the OnTrack podcast to share his insights on how to foster innovation, manage upstream failure, build trust with your fellow developers, and develop your so-called soft skills—non-technical skills we use to communicate with each other and solve problems effectively.
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Jump to Show Highlights:
01:45 Intro to Eli
03:23 Meeting the challenges of working remotely
06:21 A lesson in engineering from a kindergartener
10:14 ”Soft skills for hardware”; humanity in engineering
13:56 Shifting targets as customer needs change
18:38 Finding positivity in global challenges
19:40 How constraints foster innovation
22:12 Building trust with your fellow developers
26:20 Jeremy Blum’s take on ‘Empathic Engineering’
29:44 You make it, you fix it: managing upstream failure
32:26 The importance of Believing in the mission
33:30 An anecdote: Lee Ritchey’s homemade Apollo 11 boards
34:50 Elon Musk & Tony Stark: the power of unification
38:10 Expanding your sphere of influence by thinking holistically
44:16 How students at TU Delft is helping paraplegics walk again
45:36 Mining Sci-fi and fantasy reading for soft skills
49:00 Now is the time: get out of your comfort zone!
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