Presentation

Posted on 2008/10/18 10:07:44 (October 2008).

[Monday 13th October]
I gave a presentation at the end of the day today to all the engineers working on our project, somewhere in the region of 50 worldwide. It was about (what I had thought was) a really good solution to a whole swathe of problems we'd been having in one particular area, and ought to make a lot of other engineer's lives easier, plus let us do a lot of things we could never do previously. This was one of the bits of innovation I'd been most proud of this year, so I was more than a little disappointed when it seemed to meet with a very lukewarm reception.

I guess partly it was fear of the unknown - I was proposing quite a big change to a very significant part of our architecture - but I had come armed with a whole 14 (yes, 14) reasons why it would be better.

I imagine Brunel faced similar difficulties when he first tried to introduce the screw propeller instead of the traditional paddles. So I guess what my presentation probably lacked was an irrefutable demonstration, like the famous tug o' war experiment Brunel conducted.

Ho, hum. I headed home shortly after that, muttering "Philistines!" to myself somewhat bitterly under my breath.

I don't recall much about the evening, I think we had spaghetti for dinner.

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