The awesome feeling you get when you asked a simple question and it turned into something you could have never imagined & then you go tell your friends.
15 Jul 2026
In this moment:
Drew Pontikis
Simon Tomes
Lauren Lassey
Rosie Sherry
Stuart Thomas
Neil Younger
Aj Wilson
This past couple of weeks I have been thinking a lot about how I show up for the MoT EM Chapter community. I love asking questions and I love books, so I decided to ask a question about books to see if I could:
- Get a conversation started.
- Get some new book recommendations.
- Meet some new friends.
What was awesome about this moment, was that it resulted in:
- Getting a conversation started.
- I got some book recommendations.
- Hopefully I started to build some new friendships 🤞.
- That one simple question, asked at that particular time helped multiple peoples brains come together to spring the idea of: 99 Things Every Engineering Leader Should Know/The MoT Guide to Engineering Management/Insert Working Title Here'
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU (great video that talks through the concept of people brains coming together 🧠.)
Lauren Lassey
Engineering Manager
I live in West Yorkshire and love to learn about pretty much anything that has the potential to improve my life.
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Ady Stokes
The power of questions on full display, well done Lauren!
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