What is the Takton Industry Partner Network? A coalition of 98 SME manufacturers dedicated to helping our team identify the industry's in-demand technologies that don't exist at an affordable price. As a member of the network, our partners get discounted and free software and IOT solutions in exchange for feedback and discovery visits at their facilities. DM me or @danielmitchell for more information.

When the box says “solid carbide cutting tools” trust whatever inside will be cool Thanks for the merch 🙏 @RealNickBarth

starting a company is probably the only real attempt at escaping bullshit jobs. jobs where most of the work is: • reporting instead of building • compliance theater instead of solving problems • dashboards to justify existence • meetings to coordinate future meetings • process designed to manage fear, not outcomes • status hierarchies instead of merit • managerial control instead of value creation • liability shields instead of responsibility none of this produces value. it just preserves the system. starting a company forces a different constraint: • if you don’t create something real, you die. • no hiding behind slides. • no pretending impact. • no abstract contribution. • you either ship, sell, and survive or you disappear. it’s not glamorous. it’s not safe. but it’s one of the few environments where reality still matters.

If you’re not keeping score, then how do you manage expectations and get better? The boys at Takton came out late night to install their new product SENSE on our CNC’s. Full visibility into the shops performance and live alerts to identify problems fast. Best part about it all, it’s simple - featuring only what you need, connects to any machine, and is priced at a level you don’t think twice.

Happy New Year from Takton. Day 1 of 2026, shop visits all day. Meet Anthony Tournaud, just joined the team after a great run at Tsugami America and is now spearheading Takton’s NE Ohio territory. If you’re in Cleveland and we haven’t chatted yet - shoot me a note.

The boys at takton.com are getting their hands dirty and building something special, yet simple. There’s significant potential for those willing to ask questions, solve problems and deliver cost-effective solutions. @zachglabman is the boy for making the connection. Excited for what’s to come 🚀

Palmer Luckey says US elites intentionally destroyed the US’s manufacturing base, destroying local economies and wreaking havoc on the middle-class, for profit and ulterior motives. Follow: @AFpost

How the golf cart destroyed American golf culture: Disclaimer: I play in carts sometimes. This isn’t “You suck if you play in a golf cart”. Public golf culture in the USA has a lot of problems. And imo the golf cart was what changed the game. In the UK and Australia, golf is seen as a healthy social hobby. It’s a nature walk while hitting a golf ball and then a beer with friends afterwards. In America, it’s mocked. A lazy man’s game. Driving around getting smashed. It’s slow and often tense. It’s like sitting in traffic. How did the golf cart hurt the game? Takes away the health benefits Horrible for the turf Makes expensive and ugly cart paths mandatory Allows for more drinking, most don’t want to get drunk while walking Takes away the natural high Allows for bad golf course design Almost all of the great private golf clubs in the USA are walking only or highly encourage walking. This isn’t a coincidence. Golf is simply a walking game. It’s better for all involved. (With exemption for the handicapped.) As American golf evolves, thankfully we are seeing a move back to walking courses. The Park in Florida mandates walking in the mornings. Bandon Dunes and Sand Valley are walking only. And golfers are buying in! I learned playing cart golf as an adult. Walking 18 holes seemed like a chore. But once you start walking, you get it. And it becomes easier and easier and then becomes what you crave. The walk. Yes in Texas or Florida summers, carts will be used. Yes at mountain and some desert courses they are needed. But for a normal parkland course, we need to eschew the cart. It’s better for the game and for everyone who plays it. For all the cart golfers, give it a try if your course is walkable. It’s better in all ways.

We are living through an economic boom that is driven by innovative technologies being brought to market by courageous entrepreneurs willing to sacrifice their time and money to solve their fellow citizens' problems. We are so fortunate to experience this.

Here’s to the Builders. The Steadfast. The Makers. The ones who clock in before dawn and stay long after the shift whistle blows. The ones who keep America running when everything is against them. They don't seek the spotlight. They don’t flinch at hard times or new challenges. You can overlook them, underestimate them, write them off as relics of a bygone era. But you can’t replace them—because they keep our nation’s promise alive. They shape steel, dreams, and the future, turning setbacks into comebacks. And where some see stubbornness, we see resilience. Because the people determined enough to keep America making...are the ones determined enough to Reindustrialize her too.

For decades, elites were smug about their economic security compared to blue collar people. "Learn to code" was the line, while globalism and offshoring hollowed out the industrial base But now, because of AI, the jobs of elites — and their children — are in grave danger. Dario Amodei, CEO of AI firm Anthropic, predicts an AI bloodbath. In the next five years, up to 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs in the U.S. could be gone. He highlights sectors like technology, finance, law, and consulting. Add medicine to the list, too — AI can already diagnose you better than many doctors with a decade of education. The political ramifications of this will be extreme. If you look at the few counties where Democrats have made gains over the the last three presidential cycles, it's predominately rich enclaves where the most voters have college degrees. They have voted to entrench the establishment Democrat ruling class that has rewarded them while leaving the muscular class behind. But now, everything may be on the verge of flipping. A gigantic economic earthquake is imminent. The people who work with their hands will likely be spared, while white-collar jobs, those who have voted for Dems in increasing margins, will be the first victims of AI job losses. So, will the people who giddily shipped factory jobs to China in the name of efficiency suddenly demand sweeping new laws to protect their jobs as paper pushers? axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs…

I'm an introvert who hides from the world, often way too much. One thing I wish I did more is call & text my friends. I think about them often, and feel lucky to know them, but experience a strange anxiety that prevents me from texting & calling. Silly introvert brain wants to pull me into isolation and darkness. Then again, once I hang out with said friends, it's like we've been talking every day. So, maybe there's no problem, and it's just how dude friendships are 🤣 PS: These thoughts brought to you by a brain on 6 shots of espresso.

3D Printing HUGE Aviation Parts

Great to hear their facility will be built in Dayton - the home of the Wright Brothers. 💪🏼

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: "We're going to build NVIDIA's technology, the next generation of that, all here in the United States. Without the President's leadership, his policies, his support, and very importantly his strong encouragement -- manufacturing in the United States wouldn't have accelerated to this pace."

Elon Musk’s Secret Michigan Empire “Elon Musk came in, bought up Riviera Tool & Die. This was before Donald Trump became president. So he came in, bought up Riviera Tool & Die because he wanted to start producing his stamping tools in the United States instead of Asia, because he was realizing there's a lot of problems that they were encountering with these foreign made tools. And it's hard to solve a problem when you have a language barrier. So he bought up Riviera Tool & Die reopens as Tesla Michigan in Grand Rapids. When he bought that up, he took a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy, that couldn't hire anybody to turned it, turned it into something awesome. I mean, the number of people that Tesla Grand Rapids now hires to build stamping tools right here in Grand Rapids. And then not just that, he farms out the work that Tesla Grand Rapids can't handle. To auto die, to Artiflex, to Greenville Tool and die, to Walker tool and die, to basically every die shop here in this region is making stuff for Tesla. He I don't know the number, but it's in the thousands upon thousands of jobs he has created just in West Michigan because he wanted to make his, his parts in America. How can you hate that? You really can't.”

America did go too far with globalization… American companies and leaders prioritized profits to the point where we are now dangerously reliant on our greatest adversary. It’s a national security emergency.

Most business-savvy, college educated 20-35 year olds are climbing corporate ladders, not launching startups. The university system often funnels talent into safe, corporate paths, while big firms dominate. Are we losing the entrepreneurial spirit America was built on? 🤔 #Business #Economy

NEW: Kevin O’Leary calls for 400% tariffs on China, says it’s time to “squeeze Chinese heads into the wall.” O’Leary praised Trump for playing hardball with the Chinese. “They cheat, they steal. They steal IP. I can't litigate in their courts.” “You may not like Trump, you may not like his style or his rhetoric.” “Finally an administration that puts up and says enough. 400% tariffs tomorrow morning…” “America is the number one economy on Earth with all the cards.”

With anything in life, short-term setbacks are natural in pursuit of generational prosperity 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸