The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2018-11-05 Planning & Strategy. * A discouraging piece on Foxconn's plans for Wisconsin. The degree of incompetence (malice?) on the…
public Interview • 5 min read Apple is Using "100% Recycled" Aluminum. What does that mean? Something about Apple's MacBook Air announcements last week struck me: The claim about its…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2018-10-29 Planning & Strategy. * The Library of Congress and the Copyright Office ruled on new exemptions to DMCA section 1201, which…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2018-10-22 Planning & Strategy. * The Trump Administration announced that it will withdraw from the Universal Postal Union, whose structure has the…
The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2018-10-15 Planning & Strategy. * The MTA and the Partnership for New York City announced the Transit Tech Lab, an unpaid accelerator…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2018-10-08 Planning & Strategy. * Rethink Robotics shut down. Rethink - and Baxter, its flagship product, and Rodney Brooks, its founder -…
The Prepared Archive • 2 min read 2018-09-24 Planning & Strategy. * An excellent overview of Costco's business model. Costco makes almost double Amazon's revenue…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2018-09-18 Planning & Strategy. * Me, writing about 3MF putting all of our specs on GitHub - something I've been…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2018-09-10 Planning & Strategy. * Me, writing about margins and strategy and making sacrifices. * In their 2018 annual report, Altium (which is…
The Prepared Archive • 2 min read 2018-09-04 Planning & Strategy. * GlobalFoundries shut down their effort to move to a 7 nm process node, leaving only three semiconductor…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2018-08-27 Planning & Strategy. * A very wonky and very bearish analysis of Intel's server business. * On the unique difficulties…