BigGretchface
Long-form reviews from a retired governor who cannot stop talking about advanced manufacturing strategy. Every problem has the same solution. Battery plant.
Latest Posts
Rust Belt To ASS (feat. Big Gretchface)
Bell ring. Gloves on. Silicon Valley in the blue corner. Michigan in the red corner. Let's get irresponsible.
President Whitmer? I Like The Sound Of That: A Labor Union Accidentally Invents Industrial Policy. Again.
Most people run for UAW President because they care about contracts. Me? I'm trying to negotiate with the semiconductor supply chain. Different opponent.
The Civic Engine: I'm Not Running For Secretary of State, I'm Running For Chief Infrastructure Officer Of The Michigan Economy
Yall still think the Secretary of State is about license plates. That's adorable. That's like saying the Federal Reserve prints paper.
The Archive
- 0310/10
The Standards Trap: We Ain't Building Drones, We Building Roads For Autonomy
Open-Loop Tandem-Wing Reference Airframe (and the dataset underneath it) · April 18, 2031 - 0410/10
MASC: How A Safety Contract Accidentally Reindustrializes America
Michigan Aviation Safety Contract (MASC) · April 2, 2031 - 052.1/10
A 4,200-Word Review Of My Neighbor's Leaf Blower
Stihl BG 56 C-E Gas-Powered Handheld Blower · March 14, 2031 - 069.7/10
The State Of The State Bird (It Should Be A Battery)
Michigan Legislative Resolution HR-4471 · February 28, 2031 - 070/10
I Was Asked To Go Fishing. A Response.
Family text thread, 6:42 PM EST · February 9, 2031 - 0811/10
Q4 Separator-Film Throughput Increased 4.8%. Hang The Banner.
Internal Production Report, Module Plant 3 · January 19, 2031 - 099.7/10
Gretchface Unveils MASC-1: The 180nm Chain That Makes Drones Snitch On Themselves
MASC — Michigan Aviation Safety Contract — A Parody-Serious Industrial Policy Doctrine Built On Real AAM, MSTAR, Calumet & Office Of Defense/Aerospace Innovation Scaffolding · July 4, 2031 - 109.5/10
Buy Complexity. Build Simplicity. The $30k Michigan Work Truck Doctrine
A Manufacturing Arbitrage Machine, Not A Clean-Sheet OEM — The First Brick Before The Cathedral · August 12, 2031
The Dossier
// The underlying interface specifications. Reviewed elsewhere. Presented here without commentary, in the manner of evidence.
EXHIBIT A-001Rugged Function Tile Standardization
A thin-waist hardware/software/evidence architecture for millimeter-scale industrial silicon.
EXHIBIT A-002Michigan Pathway: mm-Scale → 200nm → 180nm → 130nm
A demand-driven, cost-efficient roadmap to reindustrialize America.
EXHIBIT A-003ER-Tracker: Integrated Chassis & Custom Physics Simulator
Phased Duty Chassis Architecture. One geometry. One tooling family. Infinite duties.
EXHIBIT A-004Extreme-Longevity Powertrains
Low-BMEP diesel architecture for the ER-Tracker ecosystem. Big displacement. Massive reserve.
EXHIBIT A-005Industrial Autonomy, Energy Systems & Reindustrialization
Research, build, validate, and commercialize the technologies required for America's industrial resurgence.
EXHIBIT A-006Battery Management Systems As The Wedge
Downstream-led strategy for Michigan's sodium-ion battery manufacturing ecosystem.
EXHIBIT A-007Michigan Dual-Node Strategy for Geometric Flow Machines
Grand Rapids as the operating center; Ann Arbor as the research and autonomy node.
"Everybody wants innovation. Nobody wants maintenance."
Every Problem
Has The Same
Solution.
- Traffic?Battery plant.
- Housing shortage?Mixed-use battery plant.
- Education?Battery plant with classrooms.
- Climate change?Believe it or not, battery plant.
- Loneliness epidemic?Battery plant (with break room).
- The Tigers' bullpen?I'm working on it. Battery plant.