In this special episode of TheInnovationEngineer podcast, I had the opportunity to chat with Siân Cleaver, Industrial Manager at Airbus Defence and Space. Being a total space nerd myself, I was eager to learn how she came to a career in spacecraft engineering but also about her engagement in the Artemis project and what we can expect from this new era of space exploration.

Welcome to The Innovation Engineer Podcast, your favorite place for picking brains of your favorite engineers. Usually we talk about blockchains, AI or quantum computation but today we discuss space exploration.

00:00 - Intro
01:10 - Who is Siân Cleaver?
02:41 - What brought you to Germany?
03:46 - Academic paths to spacecraft engineering
06:34 - What is your favourite part of your job?
09:53 - What do we hope to achieve with Artemis?
12:12 - How will traveling to the moon look like after Artemis?
14:39 - How many Artemis missions will there be?
15:42 - Are other nations building competing moon bases?
17:09 - Will there be a continued presence at the moon base?
18:32 - Will you watch Artemis 1 from Cape Canaveral?
20:37 - Making History
22:03 - "This is Rocket Science" - The biggest responsibilities
25:54 - Will the ESM be capable of traveling to Mars?
28:00 - A message to all space enthusiasts

Additional Resources:
* https://www.airbus.com/en/OrionESM
* https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Orion
* https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/index.html
* https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/

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Welcome to The Innovation Engineer Podcast, your favorite place for picking brains of your favorite engineers. Today we ask ourselves what happened to Clubhouse and what’s the future of Audio.

0:00 Intro
1:00
2:14 Why did Tarek visit the Silicon Valley
3:11 If you are not working with AI, you are doing something wrong
3:30 John Deere is becoming a mayor AI company
4:24 Why don’t you join an American company?
5:02 They are successful, so they must do something right
7:45 They aim for the moon and the will to achieve things
8:57 German companies work differently - all those laws!
14:40 Everybody is gettings promotions all the timer
15:42 Lead from top to down
20:17 Who has problems with his candid communication style?!
24:39 The level of sensitivity in the US is on a different scale
25:22 A German developer who is a really dirty mouth
26:37 This language hurts his ears
28:55 The Americans are one step ahead of Europe
32:20 There are words which don’t belong in a professional environment
34:11 Every time I talk about vacation - The sad truth about American thinking
36:19 Adjusting to the American work load
37:18 The reason Waschi would not move to the US
38:05 Working more would make me less productive
38:28 You have to work 16h in a row vs. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
40:20 I only hire lazy people because they think about the most efficient ways

The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
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https://avdi.codes/the-three-virtues/

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Today we talk about one of the current hype trends, which has been going strong for some years - Audio! Podcast or audiobook, why is it so popular? Does it even make sense to go backward and remove the video again, after it killed the radio star? Do you even remember Clubhouse? We talk about the real reason why Clubhouse did not have an Android app and why it used the invite system. And what does podcast actually mean and where does the word come from?

Welcome to The Innovation Engineer Podcast, your favorite place for picking brains of your favorite engineers. Today we ask ourselves what happened to Clubhouse and what’s the future of Audio.

Show Notes

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:00 Audio is an old format, where is this current uprising coming from
• 1:50 Why audio is one of my favorite topics
• 2:10 As a parent audio is your go to choice of media
• 3:20 My day feels like 30 hours thanks to podcasts and audiobooks
• 3:58 I did not understand where this hype is coming from
• 4:57 Do you know what the first video was that MTV played?
• 6:47 It does not make sense to remove video and have audio only
• 7:25 Who would listen to a podcast on a TV?
• 8:56 Is it interesting to watch people talk to each other?
• 9:23 The content is the valuable thing
• 10:19 Everyone can do a podcast
• 10:54 My favorite podcast - the one produced the worst
• 12:10 The Stack Overflow Podcast - Recorded phone talks since 2008
• 12:39 The Axel Springer Tech Review Podcast - recorded with Teams
• 13:46 There is one podcast I cannot leave - The Rooster Teeth Podcast
• 15:00 Why is audio so successful? It’s personal.
• 16:54 That one strange app, Clubhouse. Is it dead again?
• 18:29 The Clubhouse waiting list with 10 million people
• 19:00 The hype is kind of over, nobody is talking about it anymore
• 19:46 Clubhouse is live streamed interactive podcast 
• 20:30 It’s so bad it feels like a telephone call in the 90’s
• 22:00 Exclusiveness sells well for a while, but it has a bad product-market fit
• 24:40 They are more scalable than video conferences
• 25:32 Clubhouse is not the next big thing 
• 26:08 The American audio market is the indicator for other countries
• 27:24 Companion Podcasts for TV shows - you wouldn’t believe those numbers
• 28:25 It’s not peaking, it’s still growing very strong and it’s booming
• 29:19 The Battlestar Galacticast on YouTube
• 31:34 Rick & Morty, szechuan sauce and The Sauce Podcast
• 33:12 Crime in Germany - Someone scratched my car
• 33:55 You can create content for each fandom
• 34:58 The unknown app with 1M requests a minute with 2 backend engineers
• 37:08 The end of the story: Python just sucks for backends
• 38:06 The real reason Clubhouse had an invite system an no android app
• 39:28 A startup should not start with the goal of scaling, but target speed
• 41:08 Where does the word podcast even come from?
• 44:33 What’s this? I just open Spotify and search for it
• 46:25 Radio and mixtapes are dying, sad times for radio
• 47:23 Our children will call it radio, not podcast
• 49:45 Next episode teaser

Stuff we mentioned

• 📺 The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star 
• Runners World Podcast (German)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast 
• Rooster Teeth Podcast
• The Tech Review Podcast & Youtube Video
• Blogpost from Clubhouse about “thundering herd effect”
• Elon Musk Brain Implant
• Rick & Morty, szechuan sauce and The Sauce Podcast
• The Battlestar Galacticast 
  
  

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Should I buy NFTs? Or is it a scam and you are the greater fool. Who can actually sell it? It’s just a token that you are buying! Be an engineer, buy ETFs, not NFTs! Today is all about Decentraland, Smoking Goldfishes, the value of art and a 44 billion dollar market. 

We also explain what NFTs are, how they are generated, how to sell them, the legal problems and how Waschi lost his crypto wallet - twice. How much money did he lose? No one will ever know.

Show Notes

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:35 Anime is overtaking NFTs!
• 1:00 Everything is about NFTs, everyone has an opinion and nobody knows what it means
• 1:45 I deleted my crypto wallet - twice
• 3:30 The difference between Bitcoin and a NFT
• 4:40 Is the image stored in the token?
• 5:55 You do not use the blockchain to store the actual item
• 7:15 600k$ for the Nyan Cat
• 8:20 We are not violating any intellectual property, because you only own the token
• 9:00 Who can create a NFT for the Nyan cat and how can I sell it?
• 11:00 Who is stupid enough to buy virtual items for Diablo 2 on eBay?
• 11:50 A World of Warcraft account sold for a thousand Euro.
• 12:45 NFT is buying stuff for fun
• 13:00 Decentraland! This is just for show. 
• 13:45 CryptoKitties, where are you now?
• 17:00 Crazy Ape - I have no idea what I just bought15:00 The first NFTs - worth nothing anymore.
• 15:45 Why do I need a blockchain for playing the game?
• 17:30 Did you see CryptoKitties as a game or as an investment?
• 18:00 JomaInTech want’s to monetize - so he sells NFTs.
• 19:45 What defines the value of art?
• 21:20 I’m an engineer, I buy ETFs, not NFTs
• 21:50 Thinking Slow, Thinking Fast
• 22:10 It’s a bubble, you don’t know when it will burst. Did you invest in Tezos?
• 23:40 There are people who become millionaires by playing around
• 24:15 44 billion US Dollars are in the NFT market
• 24:20 The most expensive NFT: 91.8 million US Dollars for 3 white dots
• 24:45 It’s wrong to say a NFT is not valuable
• 25:25 This reminds me of the Dot-com bubble, 95% lost everything
• 26:10 Thundering Herd Effect or Greater Fool Theory?
• 27:30 Reinvesting is a bad idea, don’t be too flashed
• 28:20 The biggest winners right now are the artists. The legal wars start.
• 29:55 I just downloaded the NFT generator
• 30:20 I’m wondering if 2022 might already be the end of the NFT craze
• 31:00 There is so much crap on the marketplaces. Why didn’t you sell your smoking goldfishes?
• 31:50 It feels like a scam, it’s simply snake oil
• 32:50 You are Robin Hood, stealing from the rich VCs!
• 33:35 Don’t buy NFTs, sell them
• 34:30 If you want to have a printout, you do not need to buy the NFT
• 35:35 I see a huge wave of law suits coming
• 36:50 There still is a verbal contract
• 37:50 It will be a new goldrush for attorneys
• 38:30 I have no interest in gambling
• 40:30 Bitcoin should die (from a technical point of view)
• 42:20 Everything is artificial, how much engery do we burn for TV Shows?
• 44:30 Buy another car! Argentina is not like that big of an industry nation.
• 45:45 It only matters if it helps society improve
• 46:20 It burns literal coal to power bitcoin ricks
• 47:50 China forbid crypto mining
• 49:00 I still want to buy a NFT to support my favorite Youtuber or the WWF
• 50:30 Buying NFTs for a good cause
• 50:05 It’s an image of a ball. That’s art.

Stuff we mentioned

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• CryptoKitties! Get started now. Or not. 
• The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs
• The Innovation Engineer video about “NFT - What does it stand for?”
• The Innovation Engineer video about “Cryptokitty - The Harbinger of Crash”
• Some strange crypto stuff name Tezos, just asking for a friend
• The most expensive NFT “The Merge”, sold to 28,893 collectors, and it’s not a static picture
• 2nd most expensive NFT: “The First 5000 Days” - The artwork is currently being displayed in an online gallery in the metaverse.
• Etherium 2 changes from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake
• China banned crypto mining
• Thinking Slow, Thinking Fast from Daniel Kahneman
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Do you need strict leadership and hierarchy? Agile is right, everything else is wrong. Are self-organizing teams killing your business? That's a very controversial question. I heard Tarek is even having hard discussions about this with his wife!

There is a lot of esoteric wrong-value dogmatism in our industry. And that's what we are discussing in today's episode. Management said we need to do this, so grab your nerdiest mug, fill it with the beverage of your choice and enjoy!

Hosted by two former CTOs who decided to stay hands-on, both veterans of the industry with decades of experience as engineers. You can expect many stories from current and past ventures. Meet Innovation Engineer Tarek Madany Mamlouk and Principal Engineer Sebastian "Waschi" Waschnick.

Show Notes

0:00 Intro
1:49 Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters
2:37 Team Maturity
3:04 An unpopular Opinion
4:09 This is not a Team
4:44 My favorite CTO
5:21 The Fox News of Germany
7:29 Self-Organization needs Leadership
10:08 Put your Ego aside
10:50 This is not Anarchy
11:07 You can't always choose
11:19 There might be Hierarchy
11:59 Abstract Goals
12:38 Alignment
13:49 Micro-Management
15:37 I hate Scrum?
16:07 Agile is about Communication
17:09 Domain Driven Design
17:34 Keep it Simple
18:52 OKR
20:51 Making Money is the Goal by Law
21:49 Because Management says so
22:15 Scrum is the Training Wheels of Agile
23:01 Forget Story Points
25:10 Bottleneck PO
26:04 Double Leadership
28:09 Accountability
28:27 Radical Candor
29:43 The Friend Trap
30:37 Growing into the Culture
31:22 Fire the whole Company?
32:23 Spotify Model
33:33 Becoming part of the problem
34:14 Working like Self-Driving Cars
36:29 Missing Alignment in a Start-Up
37:54 I believe in Self-Organizing Teams
38:32 A very Senior Thing to do
40:16 Outro

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Today we asked ourselves: What makes a senior engineer? And why is Tarek not a Senior Innovation Engineer? 20 years of experience and still not a real senior! How many programming languages do you need to speak and why does scrum not allow speaking with me. Is it about money?

Show Notes

• 6:20 Social intelligence, good communications skills, intrinsic motivation? I don’t care - do you need Java, C or Python developers? 
• 7:00 The number of programming languages is not a good metric for being a high level senior engineer. And recruiters don't want to hear that.
• 8:05 Seniority comes from your skills to teach others and to communicate
• 8:35 Working software is only a byproduct for achieving business goals and those are the things young engineers don’t want to hear
• 9:40 What are you actually doing in your job? Programming? That’s not true, you are trying to create a product.
• 10:20 STFU The scrum process does not allow you talking to me
• 11:10 I love the netflix culture team, companies are like professional sport teams
• 11:20 Each young engineer should aim to be a CTO
• 12:50 The thing I’m doing right now without titles is way more fun than being a senior c level manager
• 15:50 Is it about a promotion, or about money? Oh, I can give you a title instead.
• 18:45 Specific titles are like blue blood - you become a royal
• 19:50 You can think of it as an investment into the future
• 21:10 Titles lose their magic, I actually want more flexibility and a 4 day workweek 
• 21:50 I heard you are a TikTok star in secret → fun with facts
• 25:00 The European market is following the American, and the US market is more strict and has more hierarchie → The level system of American companies and why is it so strict? Check FANG who defined those levels levels.fyi
• 27:40 What does it mean to be a level 5 engineer?
• 28:45 Try to hire good people and see where they fit
• 29:10 One piece of advice on how to become a senior developer: The Clean Coder from Robert C. Martin  for understand what makes a professional developer 
• 31:05 The Lean Startup, you are not payed to write code, you are paid to grow a business
• 32:00 its kind of a disease, a senior engineer loves the problem, not the solution
• 32:40 What makes a senior engineer?
• 35:50 bad presentation because he is unstructured
• 37:30 if I ever write a blog post I’m just going to quote you

Stuff we mentioned

• The Netflix Culture Code, a famous slide deck which cause uproar in the valley 
• And a book from Netflix explaining this culture: No Rules Rules 
• Domain Driven Design, that one famous book, but maybe read this shorter summary  
• The Clean Coder, the book Tarek bought for each new engineer he hired 
• levels.fyi shows the level systems of different companies and how much money your are missing on right now
• The Lean Startup, the book which started all this talk about lean and startups
• Did we miss talking about gadgets this week? So sad. Try my new favorite bone conduction headset instead. I also have a cheaper and older model, it’s nearly as good.

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We all drank more coffee when we were younger. But how do you stay Healthy as an Engineer? We talk about electro shocks to the crotch, how a pandemic can be the third driver for innovation, about VR and equipment for VR workouts, why engineers against all cliches are very sporty, how you can train your posture with tech gadgets, EMS (Electronic Muscle Stimulation) and running a world record on a treadmill together with other virtual runners.

Show Notes

• 0:43 Can you drink too much coffee?
• 1:40 Drink more coffee to move more often 
• 2:17 Having not enough sleep makes you pee a lot
• 4:45 Suit with electro shocks (EMS)
• 9:00 Running is not enough to keep the back pain away
• 10:45 Thanks to covid, I have 2000 steps less a day
• 16:10 Innovation is not only driven by porn and war, innovation is driven by a global pandemic
• 16:30 EMS Suites at home
• 17:00 VR vs Workout, let’s play Beat Saber!
• 18:10 This is a sex thing
• 24:00 Sports in VR - Sweating into your VR headset
• 25:45 Running with other people (not in VR) → Check Florian Neuschwander https://run-with-the-flow.com/
• 29:45 Why Tarek started doing YouTube and TikTok
• 33:30 Just do it! Start a podcast. How and why we started doing it.
• 34:35 How the stackOverflow podcast started 
• 35:35 How we started programming
• 37:30 Nutrition is key in staying healthy.
• 39:00 Unhealthy Habits of young engineers
• 40:55 Drink more water.
• 43:00 Uncomfortable shocks to move more and correct your posture
• 45:00 Ultimate posture training: Asia military drill with a needle under your chin

Stuff we mentioned

• VR Body-Sensor-Feeling-Suite
• Florian Neuschwander on treadmill with virtual runners
• TikTok fun.with.facts
• Posture detector 
• Blackroll posture back strap
• EMS Suite 
• Beat Saber, the workout game in VR
• Full-Body VR training machine ICAROS Home

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