Blackpowder publishes commentary on industrial finance, manufacturing, and business operations, including capital formation and management in U.S. industry. Issues mix original analysis with discussion drawn from reading groups, studies, and online communities, and occasionally just link to the author's articles elsewhere.
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A personal technical newsletter from an engineer working through applied machine learning, covering model interpretability, feature engineering and cost-based decision analysis for manufacturing problems. Issues include study notes with glossaries and a worked technical memo with concrete figures and recommendations.
Peter Nicholson writes practical commentary on AI, ERP and data, drawing on his experience in manufacturing sales and hands-on system migrations. Readers get opinionated analysis of vendor announcements and process design, along with concrete tips for ERP projects and BI governance.
Long-form essays and an ongoing threads archive analyzing China's economy, balance of payments, foreign direct investment, and industrial sectors like EVs, batteries and solar. The author uses accounting mechanics and long-run data to challenge mainstream narratives about China's growth.
Commonplace is a magazine of essays, podcasts and commentary on American politics, economics and society, with a centre-right, communitarian lean. Recent issues argue about manufacturing jobs and reindustrialization, workforce policy, and the limits of slippery-slope arguments in political debate.
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