1. Course Logistics Useful Tips Grading Rubric and Scale
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” ~ Rumi
Salman Azhar & Friends in 2018

2. Prelude Manage your physical health Manage your mental health
Productivity needs healthy body
Get enough sleep
There are no medals for reducing sleep
Manage your mental health
You’ll experience challenges every day
Your strengths/weaknesses will be magnified
Stay humble, stay hungry
Practice humility daily!
Same for all virtues/vices
Your grandparents exercised naturally
“Sleep your way to the top.” ~Arianna Huffington
You can’t hide your zits in small companies!
​Be Zen/Sufi…
“In your non-existence is your existence.” ~Mevlana Rumi
Salman Azhar: I&E 710

3. I’ll walk around & torture you until you talk!
Prelude
Some slides are meant for reference
I don’t read out my slides
I will share slides on Sakai
You talk! You listen!
I stand and watch
No such thing as stupid question/comment!
Can always pretend to be a misunderstood genius
 “This bozo is reading his slides. I can read faster than this bozo can speak. I will just read ahead…” ~ Guy Kawasaki
Why?
If you don’t talk…
I’ll walk around & torture you until you talk!
Salman Azhar: I&E 710

4. Prelude Safe place Disagree, but disagree professionally
Show me I'm wrong
Pick a fight
“… in debate I silently pray… if truth is on my side, (s)he may follow me; and if truth be on their side, I may follow them.” ~ Al Shafi
Be open to feedback! Focus on making the right decisions for right reasons
Get to know a person before you argue… Give & seek permission to preserve relationship
Salman Azhar: I&E 710

5. Salman Azhar & Friends in 2018
Grading
Individual
10% Class Participation
30% Individual Assignments
Team
20% Team Assignments
40% Project
30%
Presentation & Pitch
10%
Team evaluation; Course Contribution (inspiration, learning, & enjoyment)
Grading Scale
0 or 1: A+
Rest: I, F, WF?
Salman Azhar & Friends in 2018

6. Azhar-Student Love/Hate Relationships
He’ll give you plenty of reasons to hate him! Homework, class, making you think, …
If you survive this, you’ll thank him later!
Salman Azhar & Friends in 2018

7. Salman Azhar & Friends in 2018
Course Logistics and Grading: Recap
Manage your physical health
Get enough sleep
Manage your mental health
Stay humble, stay hungry
You talk! You listen!
Safe place to disagree professionally
Grading
Individual
10% Class Participation
30% Individual Assignments
Team
20% Team Assignments
40% Project
30% Presentation & Pitch
10% Team evaluation; Course Contribution (inspiration, learning, & enjoyment)
Salman Azhar & Friends in 2018