Real Engineering
This page contains a set of twenty articles about producing products, written some years ago around the beginning of Covid — the humorous and not-so-humorous side of life in the US tech trenches of big tech: semiconductors, the auto sector, and healthcare, as pictured by a senior staff member, manager, radio scientist, and R&D engineer in each of those fields. I'm the real industrial deal — a ship's radio officer, turned engineer, turned radio scientist PhD. I've seen QA directors scared the FDA would take them out of the building in handcuffs. I've had SPEs who can't solder, and I've spent a career releasing product. It's a crazy time in tech — deep hardware tech perhaps more so — as I write this in 2026: fake jobs, fake resumes, and fake companies. So I hope you find an interesting article in here, directly from the trenches — and yes, I really do have the scars to prove it.
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Marketing and FailureUniversities, Marketing and Industry Failure in Electronics | 10.5281/zenodo.22743394 | Download |
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Risk ManagementDonkeys, Foreign Buyouts and the FBI | 10.5281/zenodo.22743696 | Download |
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Product DesignThe Art of Product Design | 10.5281/zenodo.22743828 | Download |
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Financial AccountingThe World of Private Equity and Tax Avoidance | 10.5281/zenodo.22743973 | Download |
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Operational Project ManagementGetting Screwed Slowly — US Style | 10.5281/zenodo.22744111 | Download |
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Change ManagementThings Change, Screw You Sunshine | 10.5281/zenodo.22744319 | Download |
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Engineering Qualification FrameworksFrom 2-Year Fluff Degrees to the Old 6-Year Guilded Degree | 10.5281/zenodo.22744463 | Download |
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Managing DesignTransistors — Making the Best of a Wobbly Device | 10.5281/zenodo.22744587 | Download |
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Managing Towards LightSimple mm-Wave Constructs | 10.5281/zenodo.22744723 | Download |
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LNAs and General Dangers in RF | 10.5281/zenodo.22744851 | Download |
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Invention vs Project ManagementInvention and TRIZ | 10.5281/zenodo.22744963 | Download |
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The Financial Markets5G, the Sky is Falling, and Saying No | 10.5281/zenodo.22745100 | Download |
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Legacy EngineeringThe Benefits of Old Software and Looking Back to Old Tricks | 10.5281/zenodo.22754258 | Download |
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EntrepreneurshipStartups, Hybrid Entrepreneurship and the Run Rate | 10.5281/zenodo.22754681 | Download |
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Engineering Mis-EducationCurrent Baluns, Voltage Baluns, and General Mystery | 10.5281/zenodo.22755107 | Download |
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Managing the Easy WayMNC Cultural Differences and Changes in the Workplace | 10.5281/zenodo.22755307 | Download |
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Managing NarcissismCrazy? Corporate Confusion Could Be Just What You Need! | 10.5281/zenodo.22755454 | Download |
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Government RegulationProduct Safety and Industry Entry | 10.5281/zenodo.22755594 | Download |
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Marketing MistakesTall Poppy Syndrome and De-Commoditization | 10.5281/zenodo.22756481 | Download |
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Managerial LessonsGet Your Screw-You Money and the Broken Work Compact | 10.5281/zenodo.22756601 | Download |