The most irritating part about a manual is the things it leaves unsaid:  they leave you wondering whether you’ve skipped essential stuff or whether you’re undereducated. Or both.
The Nastran manuals are remarkably well written, for the most part, but the nomenclature is often simply wild. And this makes it that much harder to follow the [...]

I’m probably reading too much into this comment by Carlos Ghosn (from an interview that you can I read here):
“I prefer a not-so-attractive car that sells well than an attractive car that sells less. People who are buying Logan are looking for a family car with lots of space and not necessarily for racing. However [...]

And no, it’s not just the Three Stooges who can mess up a job. Toss in cost-squeezing negotiations, move-risk-off-the-balance-sheet approaches, geographic distances and varying time-zones, linguistic and cultural differences and a few other similar ingredients. Heat and stir, and voila: you have one fine mess served up on a  plate of your choosing.
The Principles of [...]

In a book (read it here) that’s starts with a lack of humility that we’d expect from anyone in finance these days, Andrew Lees argues that the productivity gains that the Western-World has seen are built principally around the exploitation of energy. And explaining how the availability of lower-cost skills in other countries [...]