zach
@zachglabman
former linguist, rescue diver, steel guy / @doss_hq
one of the hardest narratives to break in manufacturing is that you cannot be pro-america without being anti-china and while that is true to some extent, we are also partially to blame for sending and keeping production overseas that said, it's not too late to change this
Open sauce was pretty sweet, cool to see @CalebChamberla6 and the @TELOtrucks up close Thanks @davidliuxyz for the invite 🫡
Excited to announce @getgenie_io is joining Doss and Genie founder @iamsebdeb is coming in as our new Head of Partnerships to supercharge our growth
Excited to announce @getgenie_io is joining Doss and Genie founder @iamsebdeb is coming in as our new Head of Partnerships to supercharge our growth
“progress is only made when fear is overcome by curiosity” -Bill Knudsen
why is everyone obsessed with humanoid robots? we need more non-humanoid robots do they need to look like us for any particular reason
everyone rioted when @Apple took 30% off the top of app store sales, but @Xometry takes something like 35% off the top of every quote
the best piece of advice I’ve gotten in my career was “80/20” you’ll never have perfect information, so you’re better off taking a calculated risk that you’re 80 percent confident in than waiting for the last 20 percent if it fails, change course
Bell Labs was the original skunkworks. They invented: - Transistor - Laser - Solar cell - UNIX - C language - Fiber optics - Digital signal processing - Touch-tone - CCD (digital imaging) - Cellular networks and the model for lab-to-factory innovation pre-DFM
just met a high schooler at OpenSauce building thrust-vector-controlled model rockets kid is 16
there’s no space for elitism in manufacturing and reindustrialization everyone’s got a role to play (except that one guy with the cowboy hat)
I am no oracle but I can say with certainty that manufacturers from my roadtrip noted the need for controls engineers (PLC), technicians, machinists and CAM programmers Manufacturing is tech now. Don’t need to be an ML engineer to feel like you can make an impact
Great article. As a novice looking for a mid-career change, any advice? Would computer-machine learning be an avenue for entering the sweet spot between tech and manufacturing, or is it going to get washed away by AI?