Spencer Wright
Spencer Wright is the (mostly accidental) founder of Scope of Work, which he started writing (as The Prepared) in 2013. Today he serves as its editor-in-chief and chief dilettante.
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Notes, 2025-01-14.
This surprises you a little, but you don't want to run afoul of the CFTC…
Postcards, Part 2
"Everyone, basically" was the answer given when I asked who buys dry ice; I'm happy to now be a member of that category.…
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We're reading Building SimCity
For people of a certain age—my age—the memory of playing SimCity, probably on a desktop computer in a public part of your childhood home, is an iconic and evocative part of early nerd culture. SimCity was…
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The Honorable Parts.
How industrial photographer Christopher Payne spotlights the good in American labor.…
Postcards, Part 1
Over the winter holidays I wrote seventeen of the more than seventy postcards that I'm currently committed to writing.…
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Notes, 2024-12-20.
May be found very useful for a variety of domestic purposes!…
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Notes, 2024-12-16.
Somehow mostly agriculture and photography — but trusses, etc, too…
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Notes, 2024-11-27.
It's good, has some sad parts, but honestly good overall…
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Proof
Ten years of shipping radios, mostly just to prove a point.…
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Scope Creep, 2024-11-22.
How many babies do *you* need to carry at the same time?…