Posts - Awakened Systems Engineering

Living Dangerously in Peru

The three most dangerous things that I do in Peru.

Lima has world class bad traffic. Why?

I spend some of my time in Peru just being a tourist. Here are some trips we took in 2025.

Lima provides all kinds of shopping experiences: everything from street vendors to high end department stores in elegant shopping malls.

Crime – and the fear of crime – has shaped the urban landscape of Lima in many ways.

The density of the city increases as the original townhouses are replaced by apartment buildings.

Metropolitan Lima has almost 3,000 parks. In many parts of the city, you are no more than 300 meters from a park.

Garbage collection is handled differently in Lima.

Four aspects of systems engineering – regulations, ethics, iterative improvement and communication – may not be covered in academic coursework.

Why do systems engineers resist reuse when Picasso himself created art by reusing old bicycle parts? Can we too view reuse in a positive way?