Notes on life, engineering, and making things.

American board demand and board fabrication don't overlap.

An essay on isolation and minority, community and religion, and rage against individual satisfaction; why no one gets along anymore.

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.

Some facts about building things, the questions that matter, and why purpose is the real design constraint.