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The Three Market Laws of Additive Manufacturing
If a law in any field is convoluted and hard to understand, it means someone’s pulling a scam
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Pawel Slusarczyk
The Smart Extruder of utter failure
The embarrasing story of the end of "the old MakerBot"
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Pawel Slusarczyk
„Forget it Jack, it’s Chinatown” — the sad Naomi Wu’ anniversary story
Naomi 'SexyCyborg' Wu has been silenced for a year and no one cares. Does anyone remember?
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Pawel Slusarczyk
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How I 3D printed advertising stands from wheat bran and barely survived it
The struggle and hard victory in combining ECO 3D printing with Zero-Waste and Circular Economy
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Pawel Slusarczyk
Run from failure. Point new direction. Set indicators. Succeed.
How a small company from eastern Poland became a leader in the AM services market
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Pawel Slusarczyk
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Boston Celtics vs. Desktop Metal, or how to lose a tons of money on 3D printing
The embarrassing story of former Unicorn of Additive Manufacturing
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Pawel Slusarczyk
Saving the giraffe
The silly LinkedIn post story
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Pawel Slusarczyk
The Straight Edge 3D Printing Manifesto
Be True. Be Different. Share and Spread.
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Pawel Slusarczyk
Breaking News: TierTime dropped from Stratasys' lawsuit against Bambu Lab
The first twist in the August 2024 patent infringement case!
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Pawel Slusarczyk
The TikTokization of a written content - what are Atomic Essays and Atomic Newsletters?
How to create short condensed written content in the era of 10 second video?
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Pawel Slusarczyk
„3D printing: a threat to global trade” — analyzing the forgotten ING report
Are the claims made in the high-profile 2017 report still relevant?
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Pawel Slusarczyk
Covestro goes Arabic
ADNOC’s acquisition of Covestro — impacts on Europe, the plastics industry, and additive manufacturing
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Pawel Slusarczyk
Yoav Stern’s challenge
How to cure Markforged and Desktop Metal of their mutual hate?
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Pawel Slusarczyk
Breaking News: Nano Dimension acquires Markforged for $115 million
A major steal for Nano, and "no other way around" for Markforged
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Pawel Slusarczyk
Or maybe just get out of the 3D printing bubble?
Dear 3D Printing Entrepreneur — there are applications where 3D printing does not work and should not be used
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Pawel Slusarczyk
What’s next for FDM / FFF 3D printers?
How much faster can you print? How much cheaper?
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Pawel Slusarczyk
There’s always a cheaper fish
Hungry dogs quickly become fat cats. And are chased away by another hungry dogs. And repeat.
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Pawel Slusarczyk
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Why is 3D printing no longer called 3D printing?
What is the difference between "3D printing" and "Additive Manufacturing"?
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Pawel Slusarczyk
10 Rules for posting on LinkedIn
If you don’t follow them you will be successful just by accident
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Pawel Slusarczyk
The puzzling story of Velo3D
How one of the most innovative AM companies dropped to the level of a penny stock
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Pawel Slusarczyk
The urgent need to change AM’s marketing approach
You might have noticed, but the old tricks don’t work anymore
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Pawel Slusarczyk
The first rule in becoming good AM writer — start writing anything at all
AM WRITER’S GUIDE #1
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Pawel Slusarczyk
Overplayed bid — the 2016 GE’s failed SLM Solutions takeover
The infamous bidding war that nearly drowned today’s metal AM leader
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Pawel Slusarczyk
Inserting links into posts pisses off LinkedIn’s algorithm
Don’t do the obvious — learn the rules!
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Pawel Slusarczyk
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