2021-06-28
Spencer Wright on shared workshops, the good guy guarantee, and CFM's new open-rotor gas turbine.…
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 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...…
2021-03-01
Two interesting metal 3D printing startups emerged from stealth last week, both of whom I’ve been tracking since 2016...…
2021-02-08
Last week I got a tip that Dragon Innovation, Avnet’s supplier vetting & manufacturing oversight business, shut down last October. Founded in 2009...…
2021-02-01
Notes, 2021-02-01.
It's a snow day in NYC - a messy time, but one in which stuff more…