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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The Winners of the 2024 Campionato Mondiale di Umari
Like a lot of things, a construction site is like a mirror that we hold to ourselves, becoming a canvas upon which our lives play out.…
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Nicola Looks at Refrigerators
On location with Nicola Twilley, cold chain nerd extraordinaire…
What you do when your basement floods
None of this is ideal.…
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A Music-Making Machine
Nick Seaver on music technology, from the player piano to the algorithmically-generated playlist.…
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Small Parts Memory Palace.
Systems for tracking—and simply relating to—the small parts of past projects.…
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Scope Creep, 2024-05-31.
To say that something has been fabricated is a relatively small claim. Fabricated things have been made, fashioned, or built,…
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Don't Chop, Saw.
I have been with a chop saw for about twenty years. And now I am without one.…
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Scope Creep, 2024-05-17.
...little curls in the air, expanding spherically from their respective centers, darting through one another, rushing backwards and forwards.…