@@Gameboygenius That sounds awfully malicious. How many talks of his did you watch yet? I've watched a handful and my recommendations are full of him. I mean I don't mind, I like him, but shouldn't watching anything else fix that? ...I'm talking about the "Next video"-recommendations at the side of the video though. I actually haven't checked the home screen yet, so if you mean that I understand your complaint. :/
Am sitting in through the CV lockdown on a binge of Nick's talks one after the other. I'm an engineer and an aviation guy so love those references. I also speak French and would give him a passing grade on his pronunciation of Eiffel's document. His pronunciation of "Dassault Mystere" in the Concorde talk is another thing... That triviality aside, these stories are well done Nick. Thanks for sharing your insights in such an engaging way.
You missed the best story about one of Eiffel's biggest critics. Guy de Maupassant had opposed it and when it was complete he was just as critical calling it an eyesore. When Maupassant was regularly seen eating lunch at the base of the Eiffel Tower he was asked about it. He said it was the only place in Paris where he could not see the tower. LOL.
Oof, that hit on my memory. The last time I heard that story was as a teenager in the nineties. Before I had personal access to the Internet and could fact check things online. We just had to assume that people were accurate in their revocation and that writers did their due diligence.
Nick Means is super inspiring!! Love his talks, they always bring an important fact to light that hasn't been viewed by us in all its importance or detail. Keep it up Nick, your work is truly informative and open-minded! :)
21:00 the bigger reason for HOT rivetting is that as the rivet cools it contracts, squeezing the parts together much more tightly than they can be bolted (if you had millions of decent threaded bolts, of course, haha at that time).
The contraction of the river as you point out.., provides the heart/ essence of a joint.., that is it’s/ the clamping force.. “Clamp force load” that holds the joint tight and stops it from moving ... it is provided by the stretching/ “spring” of the rivet(fastener) . If you lose that force/ stretch/ spring the joint becomes loose & will fail.. Threaded fastener come loose all the time.. hence tightening to prescribed torque (stretch) & the Anaerobic thread-lockers.. if you’re goi g to use threaded fastener..👍 And in my opinion it’s Loctite... worth doing... right
PAVANZYL 😂 flue is what ya make out of horses Hoffa.., It depends on how the tower is designed to be assembled, components is Ali boats & aircraft are bonded & stronger than riveted joint.. car body now have structural joints that are bonded .. You need to change your joint design... but yeah a non bonded joint only has point loadings ... still if the joints is design for welding.. then weld, if for riveting then rivet...😂
Nickolas's talks are Gold. 🙏👏 Thank you for the amazing storytelling you do and really makes us scratch our heads. These are powerful and really moves you.
"You can do it. I know you can." I love this! it's the principal pillar that all of his discussions come to. It is such a great motivator! words have power, and some times this is just the thing you need to keep you going. Success and failure balance on a knifes edge, and Often times it's the encouragement of a man like this, who has no obligation to anyone other than his own sense of honor, to share his wisdom that can push you beyond that edge into the path of success. " It is the fool who will take is own counsel, and reject the experience of his fellows." I don't work in the field of software development, but anyone should be able to apply this wisdom to his/her on circumstance.
When I was at the University, 30 years ago, my professor used the Effeil tower as an example of good design that require low maintenance (at that time, about 100 years later, the tower had been repainted only 17 times I think, not bad for a piece made of steel).
I find what this guy has to say is important not just for developers and not even just for managers but maybe for all of us. I just watched his talk on "The Building Built On Stilts" [or something, might have paraphrased there] and his general points would make us all better and more considerate people. We're humans after all and we need to learn how to be the best Ourselves we can be. Nickolas talks about taking the time to understand people a lot and to react accordingly and in my opinion that's what everyone needs at the end of the day - keeping their heads up instead of to their own sheets of papers when it comes to other people, in work or just in general.
Another great modern parable. The real lesson is in the end ! The being " Political" at the job was great. Reminds me of my 20 something year old Son, working at an Investment Co. in Boston, ma. Up for promotion he derailed his competition, he felt he was technically more competent, but the other guy, went fishing, golfing and attended barbeques at the Boss's home. I crushed my Son's ego, on purpose, by telling him, he didn't stand a chance. And I was correct. Having spent by then, 20 years in corporate jobs, and some in the Union, POLITICS IS EVERYTHING ! Now at 41, I think he's got the message. But I love how Nicholas explains it.
What a great story! I am wondering how Nickolas prepares his material. Does he just pick out an interesting historic event and extracts some useful ideas for engineers, or does he formulate some engineering/management idea and searches for a matching story? I would probably go #1
I took in this video to learn more of the tower. Got my money's worth in information I previously never knew. The bonus information on politics... I wish I had when at the start of my career, rather than after, being in retirement. If only enough young leaders of tomorrow watch & glean... the future will be awesome to live and work in !
Summary: Make Friends: take people out for coffee. Tell stories: tell the story of what you have worked on . Read: How to win friends and influence people. Negotiation: is Cooperation, understanding where the other person comes from and find a solution. Things are not necessarily a Zero Sum scenario. ask probing open ended questions. empathy and compassion. look to see if there is a smaller piece of functionality you can deliver early that will meet whatever need is driving the push. Read: You can negotiate anything. figure out your needs. find mutually beneficial ways to fulfill needs. Politics: there might be a way to deal with the politics that you dislike. Heat Shield 🔥🛡 allow team to know what is happening . DO NOT make them feel frustrated about it. as leader you have to teach other people how to navigate the politics of the company. You could build an Eiffel tower by learning to participate in Organization politics in a way that remains true to you.
Forget the lesson in office politics, I want to know how the flip they accurately calculated the deflection of a truss viaduct down to 8mm in the 19th century, and what was the process and the actual calculations they used...
A little magical bit of hindsight: the best curing condition for concrete is specifically under water, you don't have to empty a void for it and pump it with pressurised air. You might however have a little trouble pouring it under water, so there's that, but it's possible to do with a water displacement method, with no air in sight. And there are differences in preparation, so i can fully appreciate their decision not to risk an untested technology.
It’s wild that people hated the eiffel tower’s design. It’s really interesting honestly. It makes me wonder whether it’s just jealously back then as you see today, (in the sense of “why couldn’t I think of that??”) or if the Eiffel tower has been around long enough for people to just accept it as it is
I would say the latter. Of course for us it's a "monument in a foreign city to visit", but imagine getting this thing built the centre of your town next year. How would you react?
Technically the Prussians baited Napoleon III into picking the fight. Otto von Bismark wanted a defensive war to solidify the emerging unified Germany that he envisioned (led, of course, by Prussia) so he engineered the situation into the outcome he wanted.
I started using a tape recorder, my manager at the time told me to turn it off and I told him to either let me work or let me record the conversation. It greatly cut down on the amount of incompetence I was exposed to and gave me a weekly accounting of how much of my time was used up by pointless situational updates and job-justification by my manager. It also let me all but ignore them while I kept what I was doing fresh in my mind until I was done. I don't know why this twit refused to use e-mails, but if I'm losing nearly 3 hours a week to interruptions and ideas that aren't on-topic of my work I'm certainly not going to let them jostle my elbow. There is an important difference between politics and conjoined time management. Politics are something that should be defined before the work starts, anything else is lost time. The manager quickly learned to start using a recorder himself, I got a lot of hate for starting the practice but in the end it became a benefit since the lime lost to the pointless little meetings wasn't lost twice by being dumped from people's brains when they turned back to work *and* the other people working other shifts working on the same thing as I would leave verbal notes. Its been a long time since then, but nothing conveys communication like voice. If your team only meets by text app you need to fix that.
Excellent talks until he tacks on the tenuous workplace links. He, and most of us, are clearly here for the history. I appreciate 'The Lead Developer' for providing a platform for interesting talks, but it says a lot about your subject that you need to hijack a completely unrelated historical one to make it interesting.
Ha I know people call Americans arrogant but damn late 19th century France takes the cake. If only they saw what lay ahead for them.... maybe then they'd forgive our less tasteful architecture.
According to wikipedia, his prison time had nothing to do with the tower. He was implicated in misappropriation of government funds to build a panama canal, which was later designed and built by americans.
It's an impressive feat. I read the tower was firșt proposed in Spain. They did T like it, so it went to Paris. Man, you can do better with the French. At least try to get the accent right. It's the parameters of politics that makes the difference. If politics sucks, change the system so it is empowering. Start with a neutral currency.
"Office politics" and "politics" are completely different things. We need different terms for these things :\ Office politics are expected to move up and get the work you want (as he said), but "politics" has no constructive place at work. As soon as everyday politics bleeds into the office, hell ensues.
Your cynicism is just so helpful and has immediately enriched my life beyond measure. I use the lowest level of wit (Sarcasm) because that is obviously where your intellect lives. To watch an erudite person deliver such a well informed and interesting talk and then reply with the comment you did is nothing but childish flatulence.
I could listen to Nickolas speak all day on this stuff. Just finished his SR-71 talk and a few of the others. What a guy.
M-hm. If my UA-cam recommendations right now are to be believed, Nickolas Means is actually the only speaker to ever enter the stage at LeadDev.
Mate😳👍
@@Gameboygenius That sounds awfully malicious. How many talks of his did you watch yet? I've watched a handful and my recommendations are full of him. I mean I don't mind, I like him, but shouldn't watching anything else fix that?
...I'm talking about the "Next video"-recommendations at the side of the video though. I actually haven't checked the home screen yet, so if you mean that I understand your complaint. :/
@@curious.biochemist I think you misread the tone of what I said. It's not a complaint.
@@Gameboygenius Then, apologies I guess? Oh well :D
Am sitting in through the CV lockdown on a binge of Nick's talks one after the other. I'm an engineer and an aviation guy so love those references. I also speak French and would give him a passing grade on his pronunciation of Eiffel's document. His pronunciation of "Dassault Mystere" in the Concorde talk is another thing... That triviality aside, these stories are well done Nick. Thanks for sharing your insights in such an engaging way.
You missed the best story about one of Eiffel's biggest critics. Guy de Maupassant had opposed it and when it was complete he was just as critical calling it an eyesore. When Maupassant was regularly seen eating lunch at the base of the Eiffel Tower he was asked about it. He said it was the only place in Paris where he could not see the tower. LOL.
Hahah, that's amazing.
Oof, that hit on my memory. The last time I heard that story was as a teenager in the nineties. Before I had personal access to the Internet and could fact check things online. We just had to assume that people were accurate in their revocation and that writers did their due diligence.
These are great. I come for the topic and stay for the work lessons.
Nick Means is super inspiring!!
Love his talks, they always bring an important fact to light that hasn't been viewed by us in all its importance or detail.
Keep it up Nick, your work is truly informative and open-minded! :)
21:00 the bigger reason for HOT rivetting is that as the rivet cools it contracts, squeezing the parts together much more tightly than they can be bolted (if you had millions of decent threaded bolts, of course, haha at that time).
its also lighter weight than bolts, requires less tooling and can be seared in with oil producing a seal
The contraction of the river as you point out.., provides the heart/ essence of a joint.., that is it’s/ the clamping force.. “Clamp force load” that holds the joint tight and stops it from moving ... it is provided by the stretching/ “spring” of the rivet(fastener) .
If you lose that force/ stretch/ spring the joint becomes loose & will fail..
Threaded fastener come loose all the time.. hence tightening to prescribed torque (stretch) & the Anaerobic thread-lockers.. if you’re goi g to use threaded fastener..👍
And in my opinion it’s Loctite... worth doing... right
77gravity
Now days it’s bonding with engineered adhesives that change the world 👍
@@tigertiger1699 So you would glue the tower, right?
PAVANZYL
😂 flue is what ya make out of horses Hoffa..,
It depends on how the tower is designed to be assembled, components is Ali boats & aircraft are bonded & stronger than riveted joint.. car body now have structural joints that are bonded ..
You need to change your joint design... but yeah a non bonded joint only has point loadings ... still if the joints is design for welding.. then weld, if for riveting then rivet...😂
Great presentation, good storytelling, and analogies
Nickolas's talks are Gold. 🙏👏 Thank you for the amazing storytelling you do and really makes us scratch our heads. These are powerful and really moves you.
Incredible storyteller and a pleasure to listen to!
"You can do it. I know you can." I love this! it's the principal pillar that all of his discussions come to. It is such a great motivator! words have power, and some times this is just the thing you need to keep you going. Success and failure balance on a knifes edge, and Often times it's the encouragement of a man like this, who has no obligation to anyone other than his own sense of honor, to share his wisdom that can push you beyond that edge into the path of success. " It is the fool who will take is own counsel, and reject the experience of his fellows." I don't work in the field of software development, but anyone should be able to apply this wisdom to his/her on circumstance.
Great
I too could listen to Nickolas all day this one on Eiffel Tower was brilliant and just like Nickolas I’m an aviation enthusiast
I really appreciate Nicolas Means' speeches.
I've learned so much from watching his videos.
Absolutely amazing researcher and speaker & leader
FANTASTIC and very relevant videos. Well presented and tied to interesting history worth knowing. Well done, Sir.
Nick's no fool. The history is the hook....
It's really amazing to see the Eiffel in real life. I climbed to the very top, looking at all of that riveted metal.
When I was at the University, 30 years ago, my professor used the Effeil tower as an example of good design that require low maintenance (at that time, about 100 years later, the tower had been repainted only 17 times I think, not bad for a piece made of steel).
Cast Iron I think lasts longer than steel.
I find what this guy has to say is important not just for developers and not even just for managers but maybe for all of us. I just watched his talk on "The Building Built On Stilts" [or something, might have paraphrased there] and his general points would make us all better and more considerate people. We're humans after all and we need to learn how to be the best Ourselves we can be. Nickolas talks about taking the time to understand people a lot and to react accordingly and in my opinion that's what everyone needs at the end of the day - keeping their heads up instead of to their own sheets of papers when it comes to other people, in work or just in general.
I needed this. Thank you for making the video.
Great storytelling. I could listen to him for hours.
Very nice, thank you
Interesting historical stuff and shorter, but still good insights
This is excellent.
There is a small problem with the subtitles: they stop at 30:07
Another great modern parable. The real lesson is in the end ! The being " Political" at the job was great. Reminds me of my 20 something year old Son, working at an Investment Co. in Boston, ma. Up for promotion he derailed his competition, he felt he was technically more competent, but the other guy, went fishing, golfing and attended barbeques at the Boss's home. I crushed my Son's ego, on purpose, by telling him, he didn't stand a chance. And I was correct. Having spent by then, 20 years in corporate jobs, and some in the Union, POLITICS IS EVERYTHING ! Now at 41, I think he's got the message. But I love how Nicholas explains it.
What a great story! I am wondering how Nickolas prepares his material. Does he just pick out an interesting historic event and extracts some useful ideas for engineers, or does he formulate some engineering/management idea and searches for a matching story? I would probably go #1
I took in this video to learn more of the tower. Got my money's worth in information I previously never knew. The bonus information on politics... I wish I had when at the start of my career, rather than after, being in retirement. If only enough young leaders of tomorrow watch & glean... the future will be awesome to live and work in !
Summary:
Make Friends: take people out for coffee.
Tell stories: tell the story of what you have worked on .
Read: How to win friends and influence people.
Negotiation: is Cooperation, understanding where the other person comes from and find a solution.
Things are not necessarily a Zero Sum scenario.
ask probing open ended questions.
empathy and compassion.
look to see if there is a smaller piece of functionality you can deliver early that will meet whatever need is driving the push.
Read: You can negotiate anything.
figure out your needs.
find mutually beneficial ways to fulfill needs.
Politics:
there might be a way to deal with the politics that you dislike.
Heat Shield 🔥🛡
allow team to know what is happening .
DO NOT make them feel frustrated about it.
as leader you have to teach other people how to navigate the politics of the company.
You could build an Eiffel tower by learning to participate in Organization politics in a way that remains true to you.
This makes so little sense that I guess you are working in HR. Have you considered sharing your thoughts on Linkedin instead?
@@thepetyo , you might want to read it a few times to understand how it affects everything about humans. lol
Did I miss hear or did this guy flip between metric and English measure?
Forget the lesson in office politics, I want to know how the flip they accurately calculated the deflection of a truss viaduct down to 8mm in the 19th century, and what was the process and the actual calculations they used...
OK, who is the Brisket Artist?
I'm guessing Aaron Franklin.
(Just looked it up, it IS Aaron.)
steve
lol
A little magical bit of hindsight: the best curing condition for concrete is specifically under water, you don't have to empty a void for it and pump it with pressurised air. You might however have a little trouble pouring it under water, so there's that, but it's possible to do with a water displacement method, with no air in sight. And there are differences in preparation, so i can fully appreciate their decision not to risk an untested technology.
It’s wild that people hated the eiffel tower’s design. It’s really interesting honestly. It makes me wonder whether it’s just jealously back then as you see today, (in the sense of “why couldn’t I think of that??”) or if the Eiffel tower has been around long enough for people to just accept it as it is
I would say the latter.
Of course for us it's a "monument in a foreign city to visit", but imagine getting this thing built the centre of your town next year. How would you react?
22:13 was the "photo" taken from a nearby balloon? :P
selfie stick
drawing.
Technically the Prussians baited Napoleon III into picking the fight. Otto von Bismark wanted a defensive war to solidify the emerging unified Germany that he envisioned (led, of course, by Prussia) so he engineered the situation into the outcome he wanted.
The brisket reference is for Arron Franklin in 2015. See:austin.eater.com/2015/5/5/8548325/aaron-franklin-best-chef-southwest-james-beard-2015
21:44 no they didnt lol
Glad Im not the only one bothered :p
I fell like he may have added an extra zero there haha. Otherwise, great talk!
You beat me to the punch. Now I have to delete my comment. Thanks a lot.
Accent fort correct pour sûr.
"1000 feet each month"?
2.5 million rivets... holy shit!
I started using a tape recorder, my manager at the time told me to turn it off and I told him to either let me work or let me record the conversation. It greatly cut down on the amount of incompetence I was exposed to and gave me a weekly accounting of how much of my time was used up by pointless situational updates and job-justification by my manager. It also let me all but ignore them while I kept what I was doing fresh in my mind until I was done. I don't know why this twit refused to use e-mails, but if I'm losing nearly 3 hours a week to interruptions and ideas that aren't on-topic of my work I'm certainly not going to let them jostle my elbow.
There is an important difference between politics and conjoined time management. Politics are something that should be defined before the work starts, anything else is lost time.
The manager quickly learned to start using a recorder himself, I got a lot of hate for starting the practice but in the end it became a benefit since the lime lost to the pointless little meetings wasn't lost twice by being dumped from people's brains when they turned back to work *and* the other people working other shifts working on the same thing as I would leave verbal notes.
Its been a long time since then, but nothing conveys communication like voice. If your team only meets by text app you need to fix that.
This talk has great potential for anyone looking to grow spiritually.
His French is actually reasonably good for an American.
Je suis d'accord.
One thing though: Using the Eiffel tower as a way to broadcast radio was unlikely to be on the cards in 1885.
@@feraudyh Not quite radio, but wireless telegraph.
So I’m incredible, great
C'est Si Bon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Excellent talks until he tacks on the tenuous workplace links. He, and most of us, are clearly here for the history. I appreciate 'The Lead Developer' for providing a platform for interesting talks, but it says a lot about your subject that you need to hijack a completely unrelated historical one to make it interesting.
I'd say "building a consensus" rather than networking.
If the tower never was, and now someone would present the plan to me, I would probably say that it's ugly and doesn't suit Paris.
Ha I know people call Americans arrogant but damn late 19th century France takes the cake. If only they saw what lay ahead for them.... maybe then they'd forgive our less tasteful architecture.
Careful now the US is a laughing stock, Russia and China are gonna kick your ass.
Eiffel went to prison after, being accused of swindling the government money given to him to build the tower.
According to wikipedia, his prison time had nothing to do with the tower. He was implicated in misappropriation of government funds to build a panama canal, which was later designed and built by americans.
apology accepted
It's an impressive feat.
I read the tower was firșt proposed in Spain. They did T like it, so it went to Paris.
Man, you can do better with the French. At least try to get the accent right.
It's the parameters of politics that makes the difference. If politics sucks, change the system so it is empowering. Start with a neutral currency.
Eiffel Tower is nothing more than an inartistic scaffolding of crossbars and angled iron, change my mind.
It is. It is cool because it's unique, not because it would be beautiful
"Office politics" and "politics" are completely different things. We need different terms for these things :\ Office politics are expected to move up and get the work you want (as he said), but "politics" has no constructive place at work. As soon as everyday politics bleeds into the office, hell ensues.
You used the term we use to differentiate them, if him obviously referring to office politics wasn't enough somehow.
I agree with the critics.
How very French to build an Arc de Triomphe to celebrate a war they lost. Twice.
Elba and st. Helena.
Politics: definition 1: poly = many, ticks = blood sucking parasites. definition 2: the practice of our religion in community.
Your cynicism is just so helpful and has immediately enriched my life beyond measure. I use the lowest level of wit (Sarcasm) because that is obviously where your intellect lives. To watch an erudite person deliver such a well informed and interesting talk and then reply with the comment you did is nothing but childish flatulence.
Go vegan.