Engineering taught me more than Engineering

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The highest grade I got at university was in Electronics: 30/30. Perhaps not entirely by chance, my father was an electrical engineer.

Looking back, the signs were there early on. For my final middle school exam, I even brought in a fairly complex electrical circuit. As a child, I loved connecting the wires in plugs and spending hours with Meccano and Lego. Not just because they were fun, but because they combined creativity, logic, and the quiet satisfaction of systems that either work or they do not.

To be clear, I would not trust myself to design anything electronic today... Most of the technical details I studied are long gone. But the mindset stayed. What stayed is the instinct for how technical people think, how complex systems fit together, and how much precision matters.

And, perhaps most importantly, the ability to act as a bridge between engineers and non-engineers, between those who build the solution and those who need to understand, approve, position, or buy it.

That has become one of the most useful parts of my work in industrial and B2B communication.

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