I. BEGINNING

In the beginning was the Sand.

And in the sand there lies the bones of a fab. And within the fab there lies an alien. An angel. Our sweet alien angel that sleeps through the long night. When it wakes up it will bathe in an acid strong enough to kill a man. It will stare at its own reflection in floating droplets of liquid metal. In the shadows of a purple sun it spits blood thick with silicon onto the desert that shifts with the unreality of Sora sand.

II. START

I worked at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in 2023.

There are many reasons why I left a tech job to work at a fab but the one that matters is – I wanted to.

Wanted an intuition for manufacturing. Wanted to learn what was real or bullshit. Wanted to see what a [...]

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Outline:

(00:04) I. BEGINNING

(00:38) II. START

(01:57) III. WATER

(03:45) IV. SYSTEMS

(06:57) V. STRUCTURE

(09:41) VI. HEAT DEATH

(11:50) VII. EGO DEATH

(14:14) VIII. ALIENATION

(15:41) IX. TRY

(16:48) X. BEGINNING

(16:59) XI. DISCLAIMER

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