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The PCB Gap: Where Boards Are Used but Not Made
American board demand and board fabrication don't overlap.
4 min read
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The Tower of Babel, Individualism, and Pentecost
An essay on isolation and minority, community and religion, and rage against individual satisfaction; why no one gets along anymore.
4 min read
What 365k Manufacturer Records Actually Say
A public dataset of 365,245 active U.S. manufacturers lies in three specific, fixable ways. Once you correct for them, the picture of American manufacturing that emerges is concentrated, rural, and legibly traceable to specific 20th-century optimization patterns.
5 min read
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Vinny's Guide to Making Real Things (and finding purpose)
Some facts about building things, the questions that matter, and why purpose is the real design constraint.
1 min read
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