Physical understanding is a fragile asset. Most organizations destroy it by accident.

Essays on vacuum, frontier physics, and the machines that make the impossible routine. Written from inside the work, not above it.

Essays

  1. The Floor Under the Fab

    The chip war is fought over things everyone can name. Under all of them sits one layer nobody does.

  2. The Connector

    What a single high-voltage failure taught me about the things organizations lose without noticing.