American Manufacturing
America Can Invent Almost Anything. Why Can’t We Build It Here?
China has Shenzhen. I keep wondering whether America needs to deliberately build an industrial city of its own. I would call it Ibom.
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How Startups Can Team to Win Federal Contracts
A startup may find the right federal opportunity and still lack the manufacturing capacity, facilities, certifications, personnel, or past performance to pursue it alone.
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I’m Starting to Think the Boring Technologies Might Make the Best Companies
The more time I spend around deep tech, the more I notice that pumps, actuators, cooling systems, coatings, replacement parts, connectors, and manufacturing processes can solve enormous problems even though nobody is putting them on magazine covers.
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I Finally Understand Why One Wafer Can Become Thousands of Chips
One semiconductor wafer can become hundreds or even thousands of chips. Understanding why changed how I think about semiconductor manufacturing, capacity, yield, and scale.
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Space Traffic Management (STM) Needs Execution Governance, Not Just Situational Awareness
Where coordination ends and accountability begins.
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How I Talk About Startup Ideas Without Using Fancy Words
A practical way to think about startup ideas before they break
chips
Why “We’ll Fix It in Software” Fails Once Hardware Ships
The most expensive bugs are the ones you discover after the screws are tightened.