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Shoveling.
Spencer Wright on spade manufacturing, snow simulation, and the (apochryphal) Eskimoan snow vocabulary.…
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, 2024-02-16.
Scope creep, scope creep, and more scope creep.…
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Notes, 2024-02-12.
I think we had only been in Aberdeen for a couple of hours. Yes – we had landed in Aberdeen in…
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Notes, 2024-02-09.
A few pithy threads to tug on at the end of the week.…
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Notes, 2024-02-01.
Spencer Wright on cobblestone construction, tire dust collection, and File Filosophy.…
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Notes, 2024-01-29.
Spencer Wright on adoquines, the Nacirema, and public benefit corporations.…
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On Documentation
Here’s a partial list of surprising things about human technology:
* Throughout history, when someone has learned something that they…
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Let a Hundred Mechanisms Bloom.
Spencer Wright on antique apple parers, and how an old tool can force you to confront a problem anew.…
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Ford and Macadam.
It used to be rare that more than a couple of sentences at a time were cut from drafts of…