The SMB Manufacturing Guy

2x searcher-acq. 2 mfg cos🏭. Building in public. Mech. Engineer Immigrant🇺🇸🏌️⛪

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

Apparently Guy fraud is a thing here, so turning off Anon. My name is Appu Jacob Varghese, I was born in the south of India, Mechanical engineer by training, moved to Canada as an adult.

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@0xAlaric Open order, no armor, no formations. Noobs

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@LeeKuanYimby No it’s great. He would have used that money on some garbage that made everyone’s life worse(crazy NGOs fighting data centers for example), instead it paid for some ads and whatever.

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@trad_west_ @autocorrect2_0 What backlash, who’s back lashing?

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@jamesonhaslam Very smooth.

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@gobbagon @prep_propaganda I didn’t know Brooks brothers still make them in US, are you sure? I was told they closed their U.S. plants several years ago

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@marrakeshrio @Sergio_AugRS @JamesGillespieX Is this true for high finance as well?

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla If it’s so good why isn’t anyone buying it

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@jamesonhaslam @smblawgroup @SMB_Attorney Congrats!

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

I take a small dose(2.5mg) so didn’t see any real side effects at all, except maybe constipation but easily remedied by otc laxatives. It costs me $350 or so a month, my grocery bill isn’t that much so definitely does not offset. I have to split most entrees now so there must be some effect.

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

Started Zepboud(Tirzepatide- 2.5mg) in March, waist size dropped 3” from 36 to 33. Life is so good.

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

Costco selling Ozempic at half price, it’s so over for enemies of freedom. America forever baby

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

Used to live in Gananoque, Ontario back in the day. It used to have the largest open forging (hammer) press in Canada. When the plant closed it was bought by Bharat forge and shipped to India. Before it closed(2005) many local residents were allowed to visit and record audio of the hammer in action as some couldn’t sleep without the thunk thunk noise.

[Bryan Beal 🎧 @bryanrbeal]

I’m telling you, the grown up toy economy is completely dead. Boats, RVs, ATVs - all that kind of stuff is in Armageddon status.

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@CliveWardauthor Maybe he is German and knows it only as Skagerrakschlacht.

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@RampCapitalLLC Are we married to the same woman?

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@RoryTyer @moseskagan How do you do this? Is this with copilot or Claude? Very curious and seems very useful, would be great if you can expand a bit. Thanks

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

Why wouldn’t GM develop High roof/4WD versions of their vans(with parts in their bin) and attack Mercedes’s profit center?

[Carputers: AI Generated Cars @carputers]

2025 GMC Savana Denali

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@SilasOnLinux @SnazzyLabs And no AC

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

I take an opposite position on this:
With a 4 years degree in engineering you can’t possibly be expected to drop in like a cog in the machine and start designing/making parts or machines that vast organizations have learned to build over years.

If anything a technical education gives you tools(Kinematics, strength of materials etc) to understand the physics/chemistry behind it.

This is what apprenticeships are for, i think as employers we have a social responsibility to train young men and women to help join the labor pool from which we draw from. Ofcourse it’s cheaper to just hire from overseas or hire only folks with experience but that’s in my opinion shortsighted.

I too like many was a clueless young graduate once and it’s because of generosity of elder peers that I learned to become a real engineer, I think we must now pass this on.

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

I interview dozens/hundreds of new grads, nearly every day of the year. These are people with a well-formatted resume and a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from well-regarded US universities and a GPA above 3.6. The majority cannot engineer, cannot function independently, cannot answer basic technical questions. We have watered down standards and inflated grades to the point that a bright, enthusiastic student spending four years in school sends almost no signal at all.

What does? Hard evidence of actually building stuff. There is no substitute for actually doing the thing.

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@therobertbrooks Incredible stuff, congratulations

[The SMB Manufacturing Guy @themfgfellow]

@shawngorham @jamesonhaslam Cyber truck