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✉ Envelope #54: AI’s "Tools" - Potential Game-Changer for Engineers
May 30, 2025

✉ Envelope #54: AI’s "Tools" - Potential Game-Changer for Engineers

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
AIAI
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✉ Envelope #50: NCSEA AI Townhall Recap
May 02, 2025

✉ Envelope #50: NCSEA AI Townhall Recap

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
AIAI
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Envelope #46 (resend): How AI (and a little humor) helped me survive plan check hell
Mar 28, 2025

Envelope #46 (resend): How AI (and a little humor) helped me survive plan check hell

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
AIAI
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Envelope #45: Predicting the future (sort of)
Mar 20, 2025

Envelope #45: Predicting the future (sort of)

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
Non-technicalNon-technical
Envelope 37: Goal Setting Made Simple... Verbs, Specificity, Measurability, and a Handy Tool
Jan 23, 2025

Envelope 37: Goal Setting Made Simple... Verbs, Specificity, Measurability, and a Handy Tool

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
Visions and missionsVisions and missions
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Envelope #35-1: Something new I’m trying for us structural engineers
Jan 15, 2025

Envelope #35-1: Something new I’m trying for us structural engineers

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
Non-technicalNon-technical
Envelope #29: Let’s talk about “stress”
Jun 15, 2023

Envelope #29: Let’s talk about “stress”

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
Non-technicalNon-technical
Envelope #28 (Part 3): The virtuous cycle (and deadline to apply)
May 11, 2023

Envelope #28 (Part 3): The virtuous cycle (and deadline to apply)

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
Non-technicalNon-technical
Envelope #28 (Part 2): 1+1=3 Experiment
May 05, 2023

Envelope #28 (Part 2): 1+1=3 Experiment

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
Visions and missionsVisions and missions
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Envelope #28: 1+1=3? (one of Ray Dalio’s Principles)
Apr 28, 2023

Envelope #28: 1+1=3? (one of Ray Dalio’s Principles)

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
Visions and missionsVisions and missions
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Envelope #23: My new boss + Eisenhower matrix
Jan 12, 2023

Envelope #23: My new boss + Eisenhower matrix

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
Learning and teachingLearning and teaching
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Envelope #22: Four (or five) stages of learning/competence
Dec 01, 2022

Envelope #22: Four (or five) stages of learning/competence

Andy Lin
Andy Lin
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