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  • De: Guru Madhavan
  • Narrado por: Sean Pratt
  • Duración: 5 h y 22 m
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A journey inside the minds that build our world.

Dubai's Burj Khalifa - the world's tallest building - looks nothing like Microsoft's Office Suite, and digital surround sound doesn't work like a citywide telecommunication grid. Yet these engineering feats have much in common.

Applied Minds explores the unique visions and mental tools of engineers to reveal the enormous - and often understated - influence they wield in transforming problems into opportunities. The resulting account pairs the innovators of modern history - Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, Steve Jobs - with everything from ATMs and the ZIP code system to the disposable diaper.

An engineer himself, Guru Madhavan introduces a flexible intellectual tool kit called modular systems thinking as he explains the discipline's penchant for seeing structure where there is none. The creations that result from this process express the engineer's answers to the fundamental questions of design: usefulness, functionality, reliability, and user friendliness.

Through narratives and case studies spanning the brilliant history of engineering, Madhavan shows how the concepts of prototyping, efficiency, reliability, standards, optimization, and feedback are put to use in fields as diverse as transportation, retail, health care, and entertainment.

Equal parts personal, practical, and profound, Applied Minds charts a path to a future where we apply strategies borrowed from engineering to create useful and inspired solutions to our most pressing challenges.

©2015 Guruprasad Madhavan (P)2015 Gildan Media LLC
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Pay close attention

This book requires concentration. For the right type of mind it is very entertaining and enlightening. Very fun to apply the concepts in the book to yourself.

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Applied Minds

Insightful perspectives, concepts & solutions based in pragmatic implementation! Provided me with some resourceful tools.

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Excellent and profound

Enjoyed Dr Madhavan’s overview of the engineering mindset. The perspectives and viewpoints were interesting with characters ranging from Hitchcock to the engineers that created the cellular phone and camera. Much more engaging than other works that cover engineering!

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Good book

Kinda rambles between the biographies of multiple different engineering people. Entertaining and learned different viewpoints.

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excellent edifying book; great narrator too.

Excellent edifying book. Great narrator too. I'm an engineer and this has helped motivate me with problem solving. The engineers in the past really prove how almost anything is possible. We sometimes can be pessimistic and conclude that there is no solution to a problem or as if every attempt has been tried. Nonsense.

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Accurate, Thought-Provoking

As a graduate civil engineering student, I found this to be an accurate overview of the mindset I'm developing myself, as well as that of other engineers.

Enjoyed the narrator -- good tone. 1.25x speed was perfect for me.

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awesomeness

Brilliant , insightful and a must for an engineer. connects different achievements across different ages and different domains

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