re: #235 mmmirele

Which is why this guy, Arunachalam Muruganantham, is kind of a crazy personal hero for me. He reverse-engineered the sanitary pad and figured out a way to make a machine to make them cheaper so they could be produced by women’s co-ops.

I say “crazy,” because how many guys are going to do what he did to try and figure out how sanitary napkins work?

nytimes.com

He’s the guy whose wife left him for a couple years while he was working on this? (Spoiler: He convinced her he wasn’t crazy and she came back to him.)