My name is Mark L. Smith. I’m an engine builder.
In fact, I’m a 4th generation engine builder. My great grandfather and grandfather built both business engines and real motors (they were both auto mechanics). My father built sales engines, software engines, and hardware engines. I’ve spent my time building business engines and product engines. These days, I focus on building people and process engines for product businesses.
Engines are wonderful things. Engines are what allow humans to do things that humans can’t otherwise do. An engine gives you a handful of things that can be tuned or optimized to produce a result with a constancy that only a machine can offer.
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