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Hand Him the Andon Cord
When I was managing director of English Indian Clays in Trivandrum, we mined kaolin from our own pits, washed it out of the earth and calcined it int…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Loss to the Floor
The andon cord went a lot in his zone. That was the first thing you noticed, and if you did not know what you were looking at, it looked like a probl…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
He Does Not Drink Blood
The West’s monster takes from you. India’s monster knows things. In 1870 an Englishman collapsed the second into the first, and we have been using hi…
3 weeks ago
By Being Good, He Disappeared
The best thing I ever watched a man do, I did not watch.
His name was Dale Ketterman and he was the pipefitter on my glass leg of trim at Lansing Delt…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Who Is Forming the Next Shift?
The camera was wrong, and it didn’t know it. At Lansing Delta Township, a vision system read the option code on each car so the right rear glass went…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Tax They Didn't Pay
Evidence They Can’t Defend — Essay 12 of 13
I ran a plant in Ohio, in a manufacturing town, competing for labour against employers who had been there …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
The Front of the Front
Jamie was a Marine sharpshooter before he was anything on our ledger. The Corps had spent years forming him — not merely training him but forming him…
1 month ago
A Desk for the Pipefitter
Dear Dario,
Opinions about AI are like a******s. Everybody has one, and since Saturday morning everybody has been showing you theirs.
Within the hour, …
1 month ago
The Gate Nobody Photographs
Ramesh Venkateswaran chaired two convocations this summer, at IIT Palakkad and IIIT Sricity, and shared those stages with Dr. Tessy Thomas of DRDO an…
1 month ago
A Blinded Floor
Part One ended on a man at a machine, solving the wrong problem well.
He is optimizing. He is a superb optimizer. We just never told him what for.
That…
1 month ago