Max Mednik

4x entrepreneur, software engineer, and angel investor. COO @Epsilon3Inc. Stanford and UCLA Anderson grad. Magician, scuba diver, and student of life.

[Epsilon3 @Epsilon3Inc]

Today, we're launching Epsilon3 2.0: an expansion of our current platform that connects ecosystems across organizations to improve coordination.

Read more here: https://t.co/p6P2kUfHVw

Read the official release: https://t.co/7KasPYSxEO

[Epsilon3 @Epsilon3Inc]

@llcrabbie @maxmednik Read Epsilon3's full Changelog #100, including new support for Reference Designators, Custom Layouts for POs and Risks, Skills API, and our updated Duro Design Integration here: https://t.co/X1pUN2tZ7l

[Epsilon3 @Epsilon3Inc]

100 changelogs. 5 years. 350+ features, 130+ customers, and one mission: to make building, testing, and sustaining complex hardware easier in one connected thread.

Read an open letter from our co-founders @llcrabbie & @maxmednik on where we started and what comes next.

To every customer and operator who got us here — thank you.

https://t.co/ZVIZ0wmJnv

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Defense production is accelerating fast, but scaling operations across teams and suppliers is a challenge on its own.

Our State of Operational Readiness Survey looks at realities emerging across defense, aerospace, and manufacturing. Read more here: https://t.co/MKhwPoewKv

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NASA’s latest lunar initiatives like returning to the moon and establishing a permanent lunar base need a strong, interconnected operational foundation in order to scale.

Great to connect with @AMDMag! More here: https://t.co/llLMd8sk4b

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Discover and follow your encodings throughout life --> Notes on What to Make of a Life by Jim Collins https://t.co/IE4TwXRRz8

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The mentor mindset --> Notes on 10 to 25 by David Yeager: https://t.co/tpV0vgq3sB

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Mission capability rates across DoW weapon systems averaged 67.15% in 2024.

That’s clearly a problem, but we need to reframe how we’re debating solving it. I shared why scalable execution is the true constraint holding us back in my piece for @RCDefense:
https://t.co/9hqbL14651

[Epsilon3 @Epsilon3Inc]

Our COO @maxmednik shared why the defense modernization debate should be focused on execution — not choosing between the ‘old’ and ‘new’ — in his piece for @RCDefense.

Read his full thoughts here: https://t.co/0RaDhob21o

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Be more strategic with your marketing -- Notes on No Forms, No Spam, No Cold Calls by Latane Conant --> https://t.co/Ljv602bO5N

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The speed of deployment is a national security issue. I spoke with @DefenseDaily about why digitizing testing and launch procedures matters for readiness. Read the full piece: https://t.co/sqQbIjk6hY

[Epsilon3 @Epsilon3Inc]

The debate over the future of U.S. national security isn't about legacy vs. startup. It's not exquisite vs. attritable.

It's execution.

Faster. More precise. More reliable than any adversary.

@maxmednik joined @DefenseDaily to talk about how Epsilon3 is helping warfighters improve operational readiness through better execution — digitized testing, maintenance, and launch procedures that are repeatable at scale.

https://t.co/W3CssvzfAV

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How to support good kids when they have a hard time --> Notes on @GoodInside by Dr. Becky Kennedy: https://t.co/FP1w9fPXeh

[Max Mednik @maxmednik]

Operations excellence isn’t flashy.

It’s quiet.
Predictable.
Repeatable.

And it’s almost impossible to achieve without systems designed for how work actually happens — not how it’s documented after the fact.

[Max Mednik @maxmednik]

If a regulator, customer, or safety board walked in tomorrow and asked:
“Show me exactly how this test was executed”

Would you feel calm?

If not, that’s not a failure.
It’s a signal.

Happy to compare notes with teams solving this the hard way right now.

[Epsilon3 @Epsilon3Inc]

Check out Epsilon3 Changelog 95, featuring:

✔️ Import Wizard
✔️ Workflows
✔️ Procedure Templates
✔️ 3D (CAD) File Viewer

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/EN9TK8SPu1

[Max Mednik @maxmednik]

Break one rule and you get rework.
Break all of them and you miss contracts.

Manufacturing maturity is boring — and incredibly powerful.

[Max Mednik @maxmednik]

Anti-rules of scalable manufacturing:
If steps can be skipped, they will be
If documentation is optional, it won’t stay current
If traceability is manual, it will be incomplete
If training relies on memory, quality will vary

[Max Mednik @maxmednik]

If your best operator or technician took a month off tomorrow:

Would operations slow down?
Would quality drift?
Would maintenance get skipped?

If yes, your system is holding tribal knowledge hostage.

Great operators should make systems better.
They shouldn’t be the system.

[Max Mednik @maxmednik]

Tours of duty and alliances --> Notes on The Alliance by @ReidHoffman, @BenCasnocha, and @ChrisYeh: https://t.co/nRsFE4ZPJq