{"id":53440,"date":"2014-02-13T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=53440"},"modified":"2014-02-13T01:02:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T09:02:34","slug":"why-meetings-with-engineers-never-seem-to-go-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/why-meetings-with-engineers-never-seem-to-go-anywhere","title":{"rendered":"Why Meetings with Engineers Never Seem to Go Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3821\/12508134264_99e0b55e35_o.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"134\" \/>Engineers are a staple in any technology company&mdash;in fact, among tech startups, engineers are usually the heroes of the company (hence why they&#8217;re often saddled with distractingly juvenile pseudo-titles like &#8220;ninja,&#8221; &#8220;rockstar,&#8221; and &#8220;guru&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>But what if an engineer can&#8217;t stop thinking like an engineer? In a recent Dilbert comic, author Adam Scott perfectly captures how engineers&mdash;often the essence of productivity&mdash;could completely and hilariously derail a meeting, despite attempting to follow a rule of simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2864\/12282772886_715e84925c_o.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Comic: <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2014-02-02\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dilbert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers are a staple in any technology company&mdash;in fact, among tech startups, engineers are usually the heroes of the company (hence why they&#8217;re often saddled with distractingly juvenile pseudo-titles like &#8220;ninja,&#8221; &#8220;rockstar,&#8221; and &#8220;guru&#8221;). But what if an engineer can&#8217;t stop thinking like an engineer? In a recent Dilbert comic, author Adam Scott perfectly captures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63230,"featured_media":53442,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-53440","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/53440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/63230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/53440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/53442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53440"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=53440"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=53440"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=53440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}