



A Supply Chain in the Jungle
How did Foxconn arrive at the inaccessible heart of the Amazon rainforest?…

Notes, 2023-04-17
Over the first five years of its existence, this newsletter averaged around six hundred and fifty words per issue, a…

Notes, 2023-04-03
Spencer Wright on jobsites, workshops, and mechanical wisdom.…


2023-01-09
Spencer Wright on the residential construction industry, the perils of project management, and the naïveté of someone in their early twenties…
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The Prepared is now Scope of Work
Spencer Wright on what "The Prepared" has meant, and how "Scope of Work" is different.…
2022-11-28
Spencer Wright on the projects -- and tools -- that sustained him this year.…
2022-09-26
Spencer Wright on sincerity, termites, and concrete wave dissipation systems.…
2022-05-30
Spencer Wright on shared tool ownership, the intricacies of masonry repair, and listening to icebergs.…
2022-03-21
Spencer Wright on rotor ships, daylight "saving" time, and an outlandish theory about the Fermi paradox…