Niels Erikstrup

I develop and market physical products, e.g. medical devices and consumer goods.

[Niels Erikstrup @NErikstrup]

@Asterixdotcom @Mr_Tomorrow__ @psandn They got built during WWII.

[Niels Erikstrup @NErikstrup]

@Hartoft @Mr_Tomorrow__ @psandn He was a direct line of Admiral Piet Hein, the silver fleet guy.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Interesting.

[Joe 👨🏻‍🚀🚀 @CryptoSays]

What a sight!!! 😍

[Mustafa. @oprydai]

the capacitor is doing the job outside his job description

[Calum E. Douglas FRAeS @CalumDouglas1]

Engineering IS at its core, a form of art, but unfortunately, to be a really good engineer, you have to deal with turning your thoughts into an actual deliverable working product for a certain amount of money by a certain date with many other constraints.

So its like saying "paint me a picture" to Picasso, but then saying "I need it in 2months, and you can have 8 tubes of paint, of THESE colors, and you can only use one of these 4 brushes". I`m not sure he would be very impressed.

So its art mixed with very high level discipline. and this is how you make real things which work and dont kill people because they fail.

It needs a special mindset, and you have to get used to the creative bit being perhaps the first 20% of what you do, and the other 80% being the difference between people who wished they could do it, and those that can, which is spending the 4 months or even 4 years (if its aerospace, or more !) after you`ve finished your creative period of a project, making it a real thing which works.

Lots of people get fed up with that and just cant do it.

What you need to decide is, do you want to just paint an image of something, or do you want to paint your picture AND then stick it through the huge task of making that vision into reality.

Some of that is mindset you either have or do not, but some of it is also training, you may not be used to the process of thinking about something, making it, and then holding what you imagined. Going through that cycle can be extremely transformative, which is why practical experience and apprenticeships are SO critical, if you live only in the theory, you can miss out on the dopamine hit of feeling your creations in your hands, which is enough to fuel you through the effort needed next time, knowing the reward is there.

I dont think you can make someone who isnt and cant be, into an engineer, but I do think a lot of potentially very good engineers never get exposed to the right encouragement and proper training to realise their innate abilities.

I nearly didnt, I failed at school, and didnt go to university after leaving, only after working with my hands in industry for half a decade as a TIG welder and sheet metal worker did I get the confidence to realise maybe I could be an engineer, and went back to university, I didnt graduate till I was 30 years old.

[Niels Erikstrup @NErikstrup]

@MichaelAArouet Tax deduction (or subsidies) for In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) can lift the curve.

[Niels Erikstrup @NErikstrup]

Amid the roar of war in Ukraine, China's October 9 rare earth export restrictions—including neodymium— seem to have slipped silently under the radar. This metal is essential for drone motors, fueling Kyiv's high-tech defense surge. Yet Russia glides through, bolstered by bilateral deals with Beijing, keeping their arsenal magnetized.
For Ukraine? The December 1 licensing crunch looms like a shadow. Stockpiles buy time, but how long before this supply-chain snag grounds the drone swarms?

[Niels Erikstrup @NErikstrup]

Exactly one year ago. Starship Flight5.

[Niels Erikstrup @NErikstrup]

@SociologenHD Waterloo

[Niels Erikstrup @NErikstrup]

@MaMoMVPY He was brave, stood up in person for what he believed, despite the risk, and got killed by a gunshot.

[Gin-Kenneth @DoktorKermit]

Her er hvor meget vi som sender webshop ordre skal betale i afgift for pap efter 1 okt. ligeledes er der oversigt over hvor meget mit destilleri skal betale pr kg glas, papir, plast og
Pap der indgår i i vores produktion - alt skal opgøres og indberettes på månedsbasis, men afgiften betales forud som et skøn af ens forbrug!

Kan I forstå jeg er ved at sige, nok er nok!

[Niels Erikstrup @NErikstrup]

@FenixAmmunition @__el__toro__ Not only small stuff. I have used this for supercharging Ferraris. Rotrex’s step-up design is for high rpm and bullet proof. This was developed by Anders Kolstrup.

[Niels Erikstrup @NErikstrup]

Emballagereglerne rammer små familievirksomheder i små lande som Danmark. Nicheprodukter vil ikke længere være tilgængelige. For store firmaer i store lande er emballagereglerne en fordel. Nu forsvinder alle de små konkurrenter. De store får monopol på markedsadgang, og så kan priserne sættes op. Margrethe Vestager: Du er med til at lede en strategi for små og mellemstore virksomheder i EU. Var det ikke noget at se på de urimelige konkurrencefordele som emballagedirektiverne giver de store virksomheder? Henrik Dahl: Husk at minde Vestager om dette igen og igen og igen.

[Gin-Kenneth @DoktorKermit]

🚫 Vi stopper al egen import – her og nu

Vi elsker at finde vilde, smalle gins og sjælden vermouth til jer. Men nu siger vi stop for al egen import.

Årsag? Bureaukrati uden bremse: 1–2 timer pr. produkt til emballageregistrering, indrapportering og kontrol. Læg det sammen over mange produkter – og du har uger taget direkte fra kunder, service og udvikling.

Hvad betyder det for dig som kunde?

Højere priser → Vi må købe via mellemled, som lægger omkostninger oveni (oven i afgiftstigningerne).

Mindre udvalg → De små, nørdede partier (fx 96 flasker af en unik gin/vermouth) kan ikke løbe rundt, når den administrative byrde æder hele fortjenesten.

Mindre fart på nyhederne → Mindre fleksibilitet = færre spontane “nu fandt vi noget fedt, vi tager det hjem!”-oplevelser.

Hvorfor gør vi det?

Fordi producentansvar for emballage i sin nuværende form gør det urealistisk for en specialbutik at importere små partier. Vi har hverken tiden, musklerne eller likviditeten til at bruge timer i Excel og portaler for hvert eneste produkt – i stedet for at betjene jer og bygge oplevelser i butikken.

Vores holdning

Det her er en ommer. Det kommer til at koste virksomheder livet, udvande kundernes pengepung endnu en gang – og har ingen reel, dokumenteret effekt på miljøet i sin nuværende udformning. Grøn omstilling kræver kloge incitamenter, ikke grøn administration.

Hvad gør vi nu?

Vi fortsætter med et stærkt sortiment via danske distributører – bare med færre niche-nyheder.

Vi prioriterer de varer, I faktisk køber igen og igen.

Vi holder fast i god rådgivning, smagninger og kærlighed til gin – det kan ingen afgift tage fra os.

Til jer der følger os: Tak for at støtte en lokal specialbutik. Del gerne, kommentér og sig din mening – jo flere stemmer, jo bedre chance for, at fornuften vinder.

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https://t.co/6YEsoSJBwS – specialbutikken der helst vil bruge tiden på smag og service, ikke blanketter.

#iværksætteri #detailhandel #gin #producentansvar #emballage #dkbiz #bureaukrati

[Caspar Stefani @CasparStefani]

Samtidig med en lovet afgiftssænkning på chokolade og kaffe, kommer der en ny afgift fra EU. Det nævnte regeringen sjovt nok intet om.

Gad i øvrigt godt vide, hvor mange af de politikere der talte dunder mod bureaukrati i EU under valgkampen, der har stemt for det her?

[Marshall Haas 🏎 @marshal]

Last year I sold my business for $52,000,000. Here’s every idea I tried before my big win:

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

IMPORTANT

The EU is now planning to BAN private messaging in Europe.

They want to SCAN all your messages before they are sent on messaging apps

This is a major attack on privacy

I know that many European politicians read my posts

SHARE this to let them know you disapprove 🖐️

[Niels Erikstrup @NErikstrup]

Does your mouse cursor in Word behave like a ding-bat? Solution: 1) Disable CoPilot and 2) Go to File > Options > General > Privacy Settings and disable "Optional Connected Experiences."