Like too many people, I find myself starting 2026 unemployed. While the Machine Thinking content is really fun and where my heart is it doesn’t really generate a lot of money. My industry is going through some tough times with lots of layoffs so until I can find employment again, I’m looking for other kinds of work to help keep the lights on. Who knows, maybe something will connect and I’ll transition into something new!

Here’s a lit of some of the skills that might be of help to others:

I did make a small showreel of some of the CAD/Blender animations that I’ve done:

In my usual day job, I have managed technical teams for tech companies after many years of being the hands on technical guy. I have a lot of experience managing world wide DevOps and SRE teams both in the cloud and datacenters. If you need help with that, please reach out and I can give you a copy of my resume.

If you there’s something I could help you with, please get in touch! I’d love to help you with your project!

You can reach me via my Contact Page. If you want to send me a couple bucks via Patreon, that’s appreciated, too, though I’d love to find actual work where possible!

Let’s talk!

Will

Finally we revisit the alleged “Watt” Micrometer. But this time there are complete plans for it! I talk with its caretaker, Ben Russell, at the Science Museum in London to find out the results of the last few years of research. Look in the video description for all of the links.

It’s been a long path to get here but finally (with the help of others!) I have launched a Discord Server. You can connect here:

https://discord.gg/Kuz7QkN7w4

This will be very useful for upcoming projects where we need to coordinate. Also, there are numerous community channels for like-minded people. You’ll hear a lot more about this in the next couple of videos!

I’ve been working on and off on this video for two years! I’m delighted everything came together and finally you can have some little idea of my love of Ramelli’s book!

After a long absence, I’m extremely happy to release this video. After the birth of my daughter there was a huge crunch on my time adjusting to my new role which left very little time for this passion of mine. I’m happy to say I’ve been able to find some people to help me but also now that she’s a little older my time is starting to open up again little by little.

More to come!!

This is one of those videos that I’ve wanted to make for a long time but felt that I had to build upon the ones that came before it first. Usually screws are thought of just as fasteners, but what about their role in precision? Without the screw as an easy way to magnify movement so careful measurement could be taken precision would be far harder and more expensive to come by. It’s one of the most important uses of screws, but one that almost no one talks about.

For me this video represents something even more important though. I was working on this as my wife was in the latter part of her pregnancy. I was rushing to get it done before we left for the hospital to be induced while also trying to keep the quality high. I just barely made it! I uploaded this video and hit ‘publish’ the day before we went into the hospital and, given all of the necessary prep, essentially at the last minute!

I knew if I waited even one day longer it wouldn’t be a day, but weeks or maybe even months before I would have free time (and sanity). The next day she gave birth to a beautiful daughter that has lit up our lives in ways we had not imagined possible.

This is our first child and in the 7 months since this was published I still feel like I haven’t fully recovered from the immense amount of time squeeze a child and full time job put on a couple, regardless of the joys a child brings.

I am working on new videos though and trying to find ways to make them faster. I just don’t have huge blocks of free time any more. This is still my passion though and I do little bits where I can to move the project forward.

Thanks for understanding and know that I’m still here 😀

This video is another alternate take on screws – the ones at the center of the early style printing presses that industrialized printing and completely reformatted our brains and the world. The screw was incredibly important to these early machines as they allowed the force of the printer to be multiplied enough to print an entire page at once. This reduced to seconds what used to take a scribe writing by hand most of a day. Vast increases in efficiency in any industry can be disruptive, but when it’s in mass communication the ripples of change are not ripples at all, but tsunami waves which are still crashing ashore today.