But anybody who has ever really engineered something, be it a table or a painting or a dinner party, on some level understands that this isn't the way it happens for most of us — even those residing in that dubious category, "genius".
But anybody who has ever really engineered something, be it a table or a painting or a dinner party, on some level understands that this isn't the way it happens for most of us — even those residing in that dubious category, "genius". In her fine 2003 essay "Dailiness," in an anthology, "Choreographic Encounters," the choreographer Susan Rethorst muses on the day-by-day practice of dance making.
They had, in effect, engineered something of a win-win situation for her.
Zen Buddhists might even take comfort in the drumming practice Ms. Harlow has engineered, something like a koan made flesh.
"To their credit they have engineered something that, at least in this situation, produced a bigger change," says Marom Bikson, a professor of biomedical engineering, who led the study.
Through a combination of determination, compromise, charm, and intense work with the other justices (including visits to the hospital bed of an ailing Robert Jackson, Warrenn engineered something that might have seemed impossible the year before: a unanimous opinion overruling Plessy.
If your company doesn't have a policy like that and it probably doesn't you can engineer something like it in your own life by, for example, deleting the email app on your phone when you're on vacation.
"It's a terrific opportunity to engineer something that will work and really change the work flow of restaurants," Mullen said.
So it seemed karmically appropriate to try to engineer something whereby other folks could get the kind of access we'd had".
But somewhere between 7th grade and high school, that desire to engineer something can dissipate if it isn't cultivated.
Everything is in the hi-tech pieces of equipment to make it work and hi-tech can be unreliable so we've got to engineer something that works 24/7.
