When packing a bag for a backcountry trip, I juggle numerous essentials necessary to survive, prepare, and avoid overload. It’s impossible to balance a “perfect” solution – overpack and I’m miserable, pack too restrictive, and I’m flirting with life-or-death situations. It turns out that the best method comes from making reasonable trade-offs, such as researching the weather to determine how necessary rain or low-temperature gear might be.
When prepping for a backpacking trip, list-making is the first tool I turn to for organization. By running through and ensuring that every item is present and gear has been checked and functioning as intended, I can relax rather than worry. After all, there’s nothing quite like being 10,000 feet above sea level and several miles from civilization (or even the next closest human) to realize you overlooked something.
No device represents the next big thing better than the self-driving car for consumer technology. It was conceived as an end to the monotony of the work commute and sold as a revolutionary product that is quickly making gains with advances in computer vision. Computer vision is driven by harnessing data from onboard sensors. While devices have become more sophisticated, the core to solving the problem (and many similar issues across a bevy of industries) relies on enhanced communication.
Having a house painted usually involves more work than homeowners expect. Often there is siding to replace, gutters that need maintenance, and other unexpected problems that require attention. You can coordinate the various contractors necessary to do these tasks or do them yourself
It’s hard to imagine now, but seat belts weren’t required in cars at one-time. However, the lap and shoulder-harness seat belt became the industry and cultural standard in most places after many injuries. Now you can’t drive too far down the freeway without seeing a “Click It or Ticket” sign posted alongside the road.
Designing and manufacturing PCBs is so complex that it’s easy to forget what happens to a fully-functioning and regulated board once it leaves the shop. After a hopefully long and uneventful service life, the board will naturally reach the end of its use or become obsolete due to the presence of a revision, upgrade, or entirely new product. The business world refers to this situation as an externality: an unintended consequence of industry.
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