Contribute an article

This site is written to teach, and other people have lessons worth sharing. Engineers, designers, manufacturers, patent professionals, and founders who have been through the process are all welcome to pitch an article.

What fits

• First-hand experience. Something the author did, saw, measured or got wrong. Lessons from a real project, anonymized where needed.
• Specific and concrete. A number, a story, a worked example. "Tooling is expensive" is not an article. "What a $40,000 mold taught me about draft angles" is.
• Sourced. Any figure that is not the author's own measurement gets a source.
• Plain language. Written for someone smart who has not done this before. Terms defined on first use.
• Neutral. The article can mention where the author works. It cannot sell. No calls to action, no "contact us," no comparisons that favor the author's company.

What does not fit

• Promotional content, sponsored posts, or articles written by a marketing team.
• Anything that has already been published elsewhere, including on the author's own site.
• Generic overviews that could have been written without doing the work.
• Legal or financial advice. Explaining how something works is fine; telling readers what to do about their situation is not.

How it works

1. Pitch by email. Two or three sentences on the topic, the lesson, and why the author is the right person to write it. Send to j.wayne.weber@pm.me.
2. Draft. If the pitch fits, write the article. Roughly 800 to 1,500 words is typical. Markdown or a plain document is fine.
3. Edit. The draft gets an edit for clarity, voice and accuracy. The author approves the final version.
4. Publish. The article runs under the author's name, with a one-line bio and a link to one place of the author's choosing. It stays up as long as the site does, and the author can ask for it to be taken down at any time.

There is no payment, in either direction. Articles are published because they are useful.