From aerospace engineer to entrepreneur, I help technical minds turn their expertise into thriving businesses. Each week, I share raw insights on transforming engineering mindsets into business success - from crafting memorable introductions to winning premium clients. No corporate jargon, no "fake it till you make it" - just real experiences and proven approaches for engineers ready to grow beyond their technical roots.
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I am no visionary, no philosopher, and no master chess player who can see beyond 3 moves, I am dead serious ! But there are a few fundamentals I can't ignore however dumb I might be 😆 "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" - Third Newton Law What's the action I am talking about ? The AI revolution we are going through. It's so present, most LinkedIn posts and even comments are written with AI. Of course, if you could have chat with AI, there is no limit. We are and will be relying on AI as much if not more that the internet. There is an equalising effect of AI, where a teenager knowing what he wants can create an army of agents, and boom build a profitable business from day 1! It's like if you go back to medieval times and equip some kids with machine guns. What's the reaction I am talking about ? We go the opposite direction from AI. :Community, need for more human connection, Increased value of authentic human connection, and differentiating effect of the human experience through in real-life meet-ups, events. Shaking hands at an event is becoming the only proof we are dealing with a human. Our ability to reply live, on the spot will get more valued than thoughtfully crafting a written answer, unless it's handwritten. ​ What's the point of this ? Whether we are building with AI or not, in the end it will be humans making the decisions to buy. If we are undifferentiated in the way we communicate, talk and behave then human brains of our buyers have no reason to register us as relevant or worth remembering. Ignore that and you'll be ignored. [day 3 of 30] 10% progress bar |||||||||| 🔥 PS : Raw words, no AI processing, I own my mistakes, that's might become the only way to know whether or not I am human 👣 PPS : Image generated in collaboration with ChatGPT from the first Prompt : "generate an image of a Kamehameha move (profile of the hands), the top part of the hand is cyborg, the bottom one is human" |
The Entrepreneurial Engineer
From aerospace engineer to entrepreneur, I help technical minds turn their expertise into thriving businesses. Each week, I share raw insights on transforming engineering mindsets into business success - from crafting memorable introductions to winning premium clients. No corporate jargon, no "fake it till you make it" - just real experiences and proven approaches for engineers ready to grow beyond their technical roots.
If you ask me what the one thing you learned in the past 10 years that everyone should know. I would cite Jonathan Stark : "By trying to turn-off no one, we end up turning on no one" 🤯 This made me realise, that by trying to address everyone in our sales and marketing copy, we create the complete opposite of the desired effect : on the receiving end, the other doesn't feel concerned by the message. It's so diluted, their brain doesn't register that as worth paying attention to. I strongly...
Let's be honest, we engineers were meant to be engineers. Not entrepreneurs. In other words, to : Build Robust Infrastructures. Reduce Risk. Make Efficient Systems. Yes, there were a few industrial-era entrepreneurial who built big businesses, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison to name a few. The word "engineer" originates from the Latin word "ingenium," meaning "cleverness" or "native talent" It's only in the past decades, that access to information and entrepreneurship became a thing for...
Last week with our French Tech Sofia squad we organised the first edition of the annual awards. It was epic. Thanks to Wilfried Durand - VP of FTS and one of the first subscribers of this newsletter, we had as a feature speaker Jonathan Anguelov, founder of European unicorn Aircall. Jonathan delivered an inspirational talk about his journey and the message from his book "Nothing to lose". Many people in Bulgaria had no idea who he was, and in some cases even if they did, they weren't aware of...