Table of Contents

1. FATAL_ERROR: 5 Biggest mistakes I ever made in school
   • The Basics
   • What NOT to do in order to succeed as an engineer.
   • How does your behaviour in school influence your future professional life?
2. Diff Segfault: A Tale of 2 Brians
   • Admiration for a rival
   • What are the best things to learn from a person with good and bad qualities?
3. System Reboot: The 3 key protocols that saved me in my career
   • How I fell down, and got back up during a particularly stressful & depressing period in my career
4. Running Lean and Green: A Military School of Hard Knocks
   • Lessons from the military, that can help you become a better engineer
5. Matrix of Thought: Philosophies learnt from knowing Kung Fu
   • What philosophies from knowing kung fu can you apply to your daily work?
   • A story from my best friend, who happens to be one of the smartest investors
6. CPU Overheating: Conquering Anger & Interpersonal Relationships
   • Mistakes I personally made, and learnt from
   • What is anger, and how to overcome it in order to allow everyone to win, including YOU
7. Git Gud: 6 Techniques on succeeding in collaborative projects
   • Communication techniques during group projects
8. Ant-Man’s Intellisense: How to solve every programming problem you will ever meet
   • Become a debugging GOD
   • Know how to be fully autonomous in your code
   • Note: This is not a chapter on how to do programming, but how to overcome the mental blocks found DURING programming.
9. Depressingly Deprecated: Why you need to upgrade your operating system
   • Case studies of engineering in later life
   • Negative qualities to avoid
   • Positive qualities to aspire to
10. If you are good at something, never DO it for Free()
    • A look at 2 different work cultures
    • Funny Observations
    • What was found effective/ineffective