Is anything like Android (for mobile) and ROS (for robotics) still needed for legacy and new universal testing machines (the likes you use for tensile and compression tests of materials)?
Both… I think subscribers are generally happy for what they get, and there a number of interesting providers. I also can read about a few providers not being happy. Are you on there in some capacity?
I can’t see what would possess somebody to subscribe to a mailing list for any reason in 2022. Email is mostly for receiving spam today, I’d much rather read blogs in a basically clean set of RSS feeds rather than getting opted in from several businesses every day, some of which I know, some of which I don’t.
For some reason some people are absolutely enamoured with mailing lists. Maybe it's an (Internet) generation thing, because i also consider RSS to be a much better way to "receive" content, and email is either for spam or serious communication (bills, taxes, etc).
I am not opposed to the idea of an email list except I have to go through a continuous process of unsubscribing myself from email lists and maintaining spam filters just to be able to read email.
Subscribing to any email list deliberately just breaks down the discipline of delisting myself from hpunwanted email lists.
Thanks… and you are right, of course! I’m just wishing to suggest them a path towards something fungible or pivotable at the end of the road, whatever their success as entrepreneurs. At the end of the day, it’s their time and their life.
If it's a path, I'd say be really good at a secondary skill. There's some value to being in the top 10% of say, writing poetry or jokes, and then building a poetry/joke writing AI.
I’m afraid the boss’ boss was talking with the wrong part of your team, in that his criticism really seems made for your boss, not you? That said, you were not treated like a novice at all, being given a fair share of high-level feedback. Take it as a nudge to improve and do better, without thinking too much: it will be your manager’s job to assess your output fairly.
It’s a numbers game really depending on the role and the hierarchy level, though? I mean, we should know in advance what to expect by going into that process, and the cohort we are willing to join. It’s just a preliminary fit, at any level. If employers want prospective employees to bark and you enter that race, you bark.
> How can I move to this "next level" of prototyping and small scale manufacture?
Maybe opening a small lab for youngsters, schools and happy triggers in your neighborood? You would personally benefit from new, like-minded acquaintances while keeping your running costs covered and surveying business opportunities.
Nobody can really tell what’s going on with your attempts, yet ten years are a long time for showing no success from a number of projects. Maybe, just maybe, you are in love with the idea of “build a side-project, and passively make money of it” without fully practicing or proficiently practicing these well-defined (from startup or lifestyle manuals) number of plan + commercial + technical + communication steps needed to ship and sell competitive solutions? If the case, you might even reconsider some of your unsuccessful projects from the past ten years and give them a more focused go.
