People pitch ideas all the time. Most of those pitches never get heard. Why? Because they don’t consider the audience.

I get ideas pitched to me all the time. My inbox is flooded by emails from PR professionals asking me to carry guest blog posts, do book reviews, share their infographics, and interview the people they represent. The vast majority of all those pitches have one…

It’s one of the most dangerous sentences you can hear on a factory floor: “The drawing is updated, and we’re good to go.”

It sounds like the finish line. We fixed it! Nothing else to do here.

I’ve watched this play out countless times in different hardware teams. A part caused a headache on the assembly line. The engineering team swoops in, does a root-cause analysis, and…

Four years ago, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researcher Cyrus Daugherty developed an algorithm to virtually unroll the tightly wrapped layers of a cylindrical lithium-ion battery. Daugherty’s software transformed X-ray images of the battery, taken at different angles, into a CT scan. The scan, a 3D portrait of the battery’s interior, pinpointed hard-to-spot defects and…