[ Communication ]

The academic view of communication identifies a sender and a receiver, with a message encoded by the sender and then decoded by the receiver. But that’s somewhat unhelpful when you’re trying to find out whether the widget will actually be delivered on time and on budget.

Communication is obviously an essential competency. The irony though is: “I have too many emails!”. Perhaps communication is more than emails.

Academically, the decoding of your encoded message to the receiver should not make them work harder. In reality, try to make sense. Engineering is as much about collaboration as it is about calculations.