public Project Notes • 7 min read Notes, 2023-03-20 Sean Kelley on design for maintenance, the logistics of a $5 footlong, and hurricane-rated windows.…
The Prepared Archive • 5 min read 2022-09-05 Sean Kelley on the dream of crowd-developed hardware, Boeing’s last 747s, and the ongoing chip shortage.…
The Prepared Archive • 5 min read 2022-03-28 Sean Kelley on the iron triangle of project management, London's Crossrail train, and folding shipping containers.…
The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2021-12-13 Sean Kelley on better questions for performance reviews, the tungsten cube craze, and the chip shortage.…
The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2021-09-13 Sean Kelley on the great resignation, high-speed rail, and kettlebell manufacturing.…
The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2021-06-14 The Prepared’s reading group recently finished The Innovation Delusion, the premise of which is that society worships innovation, undervalues...…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2021-03-15 As engineers we stand on the shoulders of giants. The laws of physics we take for granted because Newton saw an apple fall..…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2020-12-14 Unpickable locks and the often underestimated investment needed for large infrastructure projects…
The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2020-09-14 Notes, 2020-09-14. As if this year hasn’t been difficult enough, the sky has turned red in my home state…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2020-06-15 Thanks to everyone who took us up on our donation matching offer from last week; together we donated $20k in…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2020-03-16 Notes, 2020-03-16 Hello, The Prepared. Sean here. When I last guest edited in July, I was in the middle of…
The Prepared Archive • 2 min read 2019-07-29 Planning & Strategy. * Toyota unveiled five robots that will support both athletes and attendees at Tokyo 2020, including one that…