Applied Minds: How Engineers Think Audiobook (Free)

A journey in the thoughts that build the world.

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa-the world’s tallest building-looks nothing like Microsoft’s Office Suite, and digital surround audio doesn’t work like a citywide telecommunication grid. However these engineering feats have very much in common.

Applied Thoughts explores the unique visions and mental tools of engineers to disclose the enormous-and often understated-influence they wield in transforming problems into opportunities. The ensuing accounts pairs the about Applied Thoughts: How Designers Think innovators of modern history-Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, Steve Jobs-with from ATMs and the ZIP code program to the disposable diaper.

An engineer himself, Guru Madhavan introduces a flexible intellectual device kit called modular systems thinking as he explains the discipline’s penchant for seeing framework where there is non-e. The creations that derive from this process communicate the engineer’s answers to the fundamental questions of design: usefulness, features, reliability, and ease of use.

Through narratives and case studies spanning the outstanding history of anatomist, Madhavan shows how the concepts of prototyping, efficiency, reliability, standards, optimization, and feedback are put to use in fields as different as transportation, retail, healthcare, and entertainment.

Equal parts personal, practical, and profound, Applied Minds graphs a way to another where we apply strategies borrowed from anatomist to create useful and motivated answers to our most pressing challenges.