For the greater part of the last decade, I’ve worked as an  independent tech journalist, covering maker projects, writing industrial whitepapers, an

Tech Adjacent with Jeremy Cook

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2024-12-22 14:00:15

For the greater part of the last decade, I’ve worked as an independent tech journalist, covering maker projects, writing industrial whitepapers, and working on actual engineering projects when the opportunity arises. I’ve made a good living since leaving my full-time profession as a manufacturing engineer to strike out on my own in early 2016.

After that break from traditional employment, four years of continuous growth followed, with a conspicuous drop-off in 2021, followed by lackluster results in 2022, and again in 2023. Based on current estimates, 2024 won’t be great either. 1 Note that these totals include money earned from sales of products on Tindie, small engineering projects that I take on from time to time (including a successful Kickstarter!), and a relative pittance from YouTube and Amazon advertising.

One might point out that correlation doesn’t (necessarily) imply causation, but there are a few macro possibilities 2 that one has to explore.

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