This is The Standard. A collection of decades of experience in the engineering industry. I authored it for you to find your way in the wide ocean of knowledge. The Standard is not perfect, and never will be. It reflects the ongoing evolution in the engineering industry. Whilst it may be written by one person, it is actually the collection of thoughts from hundreds of engineers that I've had the honor to interact with throughout my life and learn from. The Standard holds hundreds of years of collective experiences from so many different engineers. As I travelled the world and worked in so many industries, I've had the chance to work with so many different types of engineers - some of them were mad scientists who would bother with the smallest details of every single routine. And some others are business-engineers who care more about the end results than the means to get to these results. Among many others, I've learned from all of them what makes a simple engineering guide, that can light up the way for all other engineers to be inspired by it and hopefully follow it. And therefore, I made this Standard hoping for it to be a compass for all of us engineers to use to find the best way to engineer solutions that would hopefully change the world.