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.
Pick one. Anyone, but pick one. I learned from our cousins the “creatives” that my biggest obstacle to build a profitable service business lays in “my creativity” what ?? Entrepreneurial engineers are a form of creative entrepreneurs. We are so “curious” we can’t help but when facing several doors, we want to open every single one of them. It’s almost compulsive. Which curious mind can live with themselves leaving one stone unturned ? We proud ourselves into being “solution-oriented”,...
Unlike Professor X, we can't get into people's head and tell them what to do. But there's something else we can do. My first job as an avionics engineer was to update the embedded software of an Fighter's Electronic Warfare Equipment so it would store and manage data in FlashPROM instead of EEPROM. Sounds easy, just replace an electronic component with another, and boom it's done. Well, that system was an existing and robust one, built more than a few decades back, and I could not use all the...
We've created this amazing solution, how do we sell it ? As AI takes center stage, I’m seeing a flood of firms churning out “amazing solutions” for problems that might not even exist. 🤨 This made me think of Eric Ries's "The Lean Startup", when I read that book in my early years of avionics software development, and up to that point I lived under the impression that we were at the top technological advancement ... that's when it hit me. "No Othmane, you are working on a known solution, for a...