Engineer Your Goals - An Architect's Blueprint for Success
I've been developing and/or architecting software for the past 25 years. At one point, I thought I was done with computers and wanted to find out how humans work. So I started to study Psychology and then completed an Advanced Diploma in Executive and Personal Coaching.
Working in both fields, taught me some interesting lessons. There are parallels.
We build AI by modelling our brains. Why not try to apply an engineer's mindset to model our lives?
Let's start at the beginning.
How to transform your ambitions into achievable goals with an engineer's precision
When you head out to create a brand-new piece of software, you start with the users in mind. You describe the personas that will interact with it, create epics that describe the big items, user stories based on these epics and slowly flesh out more and more details.
At the start, you don't want to pre-solution! You want to describe the WHAT.
What do you want to achieve in the next 5, 3, 1 years?
To make it relatable, let's choose the epic…