Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to remind us of the purpose in the work we do together. The engineering people leaders have been reading a book together called “how big things get done” and in it the author talks about Pixar planning. There’s plenty of good content and lessons to be appreciated and applied from how Pixar plans their movies. But that’s not what I want to talk about today. Instead, I wanted to share one of my favorite clips from Pixar’s Ratatouille. It’s by Anton Ego, the food critic in the movie, who says: “In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends.” At DCS we value the new and reflect that in our core value of being learning oriented – which we say means “we are always improving. I also think there is a tie in between Anton’s reflection and our value of being a problem solver…our first response is let’s figure it out. It’s easy to be a critic. To point out the flaws in others or the work processes. It’s a trap I fall into more often than I’d care to admit. So, join me this week and recommitting ourselves to our values of being learning oriented and being problem solvers. Let’s focus on working together to get better solve problems and learn together as we deliver the best employee and customer experience in our industry! Thanks for your work and the way you do it. Have a great week!