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Sept 2026
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The past, present, and future of industrial designers and design engineers.
(8/8) The complete Industrial Designer - Manufacturing.
(7/8) The complete industrial designer – Hardware UX
(6/8) The complete industrial designer – Prototyping.
Jul 2026
(5/8) The complete industrial designer – CAD
(4/8) The complete industrial designer – CMF.
(3/8) The complete industrial designer – Form.
(2/8) The complete industrial designer – Sketching.
(1/8) The complete industrial designer – Research & observation.
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Teardown: A ₹200 wall clock
The second brain is a graveyard
The hero of the quarter
Special Edition: Design Engineering x AI
How to read a rose
The tells of a good toolmaker
Why the air cooler beats the AC in half of India
Hardware design & other things - #10
Everything's news now
Why cheap looks cheap before you've touched it
Jun 2026
50+ things worth knowing
May 2026
Hardware design & other things - #9
Civic (non)sense
Input / output
Small, but big, things AI can't replace
Hardware design & other things - #8
The psychology of the feed
You are a book of stories
Be where your fucking feet are
Two kinds of people, by 2030. Choose.
Hardware design & other things daily - #7
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Picture the product in your head first
Apr 2026
70 things I learned making hardware in India
You're talking to too many people
What premium actually means
Washing machine: The hope purchase
A single-brain operation
Why Indian brands can't charge what their products are worth
Mar 2026
South Korea: What they wrote on the wall
Dec 2025
The feeling a product gives before you touch it
The real problem with 'simple' hardware
Seat at the table
CMF is hardware UX too!
Nov 2025
What if we just built all of these?
Oct 2025
18 random reflections on writing and thinking on the page
40 assorted notes on how I read
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