Planning & Strategy.

• A smart blog post on an alternative method of pricing & selling niche products. The approach taken uses Vickrey auctions, which set the price for a batch of n products to be the n+1th bid in a sealed auction.
• The Navy is reverting destroyers back to physical throttles after touchscreen UI complexity was flagged as a potential issue in the aftermath of the USS John S. McCain collision.
• The way that WeWork issued employee options is totally terrible.

Making & Manufacturing.

• Aeromet's A20X aluminum powder for DMLS/LPBF surpassed the 500 MPa mark in utimate tensile strength, putting it roughly on par with 7075-T6.
• Viennetta ice cream cakes being made.
• The patent for Knipex's Cobra pliers, which are excellent.

Maintenance, Repair & Operations.

• The 2019 Festival of Maintenance will be held on 2019-09-28 in Liverpool. Go, and say hi to Laura for me :)

Distribution & Logistics.

• A live map of CO2 emissions from electricity generation worldwide.
• The world's largest electric vehicle, an adaptation of the Komatsu HD 605-7 mining truck, may run at a surplus due to the fact that it drives uphill empty and regenerates through braking when full.

Inspection, Testing & Analysis.

• A good video comparing a $1000 Sunnen dial bore gage with a $7 set of Plastigage. Pretty rad.
• A teardown of the Apple AirPods charging case.

Tangents.

• Control your Google Slides presentations with an old Nokia 3510i.
• A list of large public transit projects that are less expensive than Uber's $5.2 B Q2 losses.

Disassembling the Sony FE 135mm f/1.8 GM