Being an Early Career Scientist

A Tale of Two Stories

Why This Is Important: An introduction of sorts

Leveraging Data for Growth: Why I think Citrine Informatics could emerge as a leader in AI/ML for chemicals

Betting on Your Customers: Enabling first mover markets and balancing existing markets

Micro and Nanoplastics: The first rule of this newsletter: Don't Panic

Talk to Each Other: The purpose of this post is primarily to get the audience to talk to each other and not necessarily to me directly. The economy might be startin…

The United States is NOT The Best at R&D: Why I'm bullish on the Europeans despite their current energy crisis

Deep Dive into DuPont: Not as special as you might think.

Specialty Polymers Are Built on Platforms: The platforms are the variety of available monomers.

Send Samples To Your Customers: And how to get them to agree to take them. Sooner is better than later.

Private Equity Needs To Up Their Game: Follow-up on my 2024 prediction

How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Chemical Industry: My hypothesis as a chemist and a follow-up to my 2024 prediction

2024 Predictions: Let's try this again

Value Based Product Development: It's not easy, but if you can succeed it's the most defensible path to success.

Scoring My Predictions for 2023: Big end of the year post vibes

Patents Cut Both Ways: Patents are not revenue

Commercializing is Viability: Going through the process is it. Scale hopefully follows later.

What I Wish I Knew in Graduate School: If I could do it all over.

The Disposable Economy: How did we get here?

The Last 3 Years: Distilling what I've learned over the last three years of writing the newsletter.

The Fundamentals of Commercialization

Assembly Line of Enzymes

Making Money From Lignin

Bioeconomy Basics: Feedstocks for the 21st century