2021-08-02
Spencer Wright on the Hoover dam, long distance power lines, and polycrystalline diamond cutter drill bits…
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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A Symbiotic Truce
On composites, crayfish, and reinforced concrete's tentative alkalinity.
For most of a red swamp crayfish’s life, cambarincola…
2021-07-12
Spencer Wright on Dr. Bronners GHG emissions, cellulose carbamate production, and the emotional experience of physical exertion.…
2021-07-05
Spencer Wright on the FAA's right of way rules, the way noise affects productivity, and Bagel Bakers Local 338.…
2021-06-28
Spencer Wright on shared workshops, the good guy guarantee, and CFM's new open-rotor gas turbine.…
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The New and Former Companies on Apple's FY2021 Supplier List
At some point in late May or early June, Apple quietly updated their supplier responsibility page with a new supplier…
2021-05-24
For as long as I can recall, I’ve believed that the marginal cost of buying a nice tool is usually lower than the marginal cost of the time I would...…
2021-04-26
A pretty rad visualization showing how the USPS expanded westward and, as the author argues in the accompanying book, “made the nineteenth century...…
Notes, 2021-04-15.
It is perhaps counterintuitive, but in many ways I find it more enjoyable to be asked a hard question than…
Notes, 2021-04-09.
After almost seven and a half years in publication, this newsletter crossed 10,000 subscribers last month - and then…
2021-04-05
The White House’s American Jobs Plan's fact sheet is littered through with infranerd catnip: Over $100B in mass public transit; $20B in improved...…
2021-03-22
After the 1956 consent decree allowing AT&T a monopoly over the US telephone network, all of Bell Labs’ patents were issued royalty-free; Bell was...…