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, 2023-04-17
Over the first five years of its existence, this newsletter averaged around six hundred and fifty words per issue, a…
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Notes, 2023-04-03
Spencer Wright on jobsites, workshops, and mechanical wisdom.…
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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…
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Learning at Scale
An Interview with Stewart Brand
A few months ago Stewart Brand, a reader of this newsletter, signed up to become…
2022-01-24
Spencer Wright on Sitka spruce helicopter blades, sewer pipe relining, and snow plow ballet.…