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No Feasible Solution
A manufacturing plant has to do three things.
Make the product to plan. Make it to quality. Send everybody home whole.
That is it. Three. A new hire ca…
1 month ago
What the Million-Dollar Tester Could Not Do
Evidence They Can’t Defend — Essay 10 of 13
Every vehicle launch has a signature failure, and on a modern car it is electrical.
Not the components. The…
1 month, 1 week ago
Dependent on These Jobs
In late August an electrician sat in a planning-commission hearing from half past seven until nearly one in the morning. He was not there to object. …
1 month, 1 week ago
Nobody Put a Meter on It
In the first three months of 2026, local opposition blocked or delayed at least seventy-five data center projects worth roughly $130 billion. That is…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Robot and the Meister
Dear Andy,
This letter has two names on it. The second one spent a career building the machines.
Over the last two days I made an argument to you in tw…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Account You Already Built
Dear Andy,
Yesterday I argued that Amazon holds a fifth pillar it has never named: that innovation and brand equity, the only two assets you own that …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Fifth Pillar
Dear Andy,
Congratulations on the No. 1 spot — past $700 billion, and the end of Walmart’s twelve-year hold on it. That is a real achievement and I do…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Factory That Bought Its Own Stock
During the CTS launch at Lansing Grand River we had a defect that would not go away. The instrument panel rubbed the door opening as it went in. Ever…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Who Paid for That Engineer?
Source: Soren Kaplan, “AI Can Do the Work. It Still Can’t Replace the One Thing Companies Need Most,” Inc., July 27, 2026. Underlying study: Erik Bry…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Schoolhouse on the Ganga I Never Saw
My grandfather Guruswami was one of the first civil engineers to come out of Guindy — the College of Engineering, Madras — in a generation when that …
1 month, 3 weeks ago