Creativity | Unfiltered: Aerogel
Aerogels have become fairly common in industrial applications to insulate everything from oil pipelines in Siberia to space shuttles in well… outer space. They’re even used in ski jackets.
Price is Right: How to Price your Product
Where does a price come from? Well, there are many answers to that. Some are rooted in logical analysis. Some seem to be plucked from the mist in a shaman’s sweat lodge because they just feel good. Some work. Some don’t. Use these tools and tips to help guide your during your pricing process, or try our free calculator.
Creativity | Unfiltered: Freakonomics
Freakonomics will tease your mind into looking at everything with a bit less acceptance at its face value – which can be a great asset when applied to managing your business or serving your target market.
Creativity | Unfiltered: Rich Dad Poor Dad
In his book, Robert Kiyosaki tells of his upbringing observing and learning from his friend’s dad and his own dad. There were many differences in how they approached their work, how they viewed and used their money, and how they ultimately fared in life.
CNC Milling Process
In one form or another, the CNC milling process is involved in the vast majority of tangible products in modern industrial manufacturing. While it only directly makes a small fraction of parts, it’s the most common method to create tooling, so it’s difficult to avoid altogether.
Creativity | Unfiltered: Peltier Element
Peltier elements look like flat, usually square, plates with two wires extending from it. Between these two surfaces is an array of semiconductors in series alternating between n-type and p-type (n-type has “n” for “negative” or lots of extra electrons; p-type has “p” for “positive” or shortage of electrons).
Creativity | Unfiltered: It’s Your Ship
Reading this, you’ll learn of creative ways Captain Abrashoff sought out the value and mutual respect in every last one of the individuals on the USS Benfold. His accounts are full of entertaining reflections and lessons in such pursuits.
Evil Genius LifeHack: Lasers
Most people are well familiar with light when it comes to white light and how it can be separated by a prism to a spectrum of colors, but life’s not all just sunshine and rainbows. Here, we’re going to get into how light can be produced so intensely that it can burn, cut, and destroy (cue evil villain laugh).
Plastic Injection Molding Process
The plastic injection molding process is arguably the most common process in product manufacturing in the current age by volume of parts. Properties of plastics now make them suitable for things you wouldn’t have even imagined possible just a few decades ago. Injection molding quickly and inexpensively shapes these plastics into useful parts.
Creativity | Unfiltered: The E Myth
Unlike many of that sort of book which prescribes a strategy or method that, effective as it may be, becomes utterly forgettable - this one is different. In The E Myth Revisited, Michael Gerber touches the very raw and very personal emotions of the small business startup.