2022-02-21
Skyler Adams on the great capacitor plague, the challenges with surgical robots, and the ever accelerating pace of fast fashion.…
Scope of Work
Excellent writing about the physical world.
Déneigement Montreal
A peek into Montreal's mastery of snow
Before moving to Montreal in 2020, I had lived my whole…
2022-02-14
Kane Hsieh on messy knowledge transfer, McFlurry machine litigation, and Patek Phillipe industrial timekeeping systems.…
A Never Ending Grind
The mortar and pestle is one of the most common kitchen tools in the world, and one of the most…
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2022-02-07
Brian Potter on the value of speculation, Roman maps, and the recent Tonga eruption.…
Electrify
Starting 2022-02-04, The Prepared’s Reading Group is reading Saul Griffith’s Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for our Clean Energy Future.…
Learning at Scale
An Interview with Stewart Brand
A few months ago Stewart Brand, a reader of this newsletter, signed up to become…
2022-01-31
Lee Wilkins on the Overview Effect, waterjet cake cutting, and kanji typewriters.…
2022-01-24
Spencer Wright on Sitka spruce helicopter blades, sewer pipe relining, and snow plow ballet.…
2022-01-17
James Coleman on digital twins, Rivian's upcoming Georgia facility, and dumb boxes.…
2022-01-10
Spencer Wright on how to ship horses via air, the JWST, and that Ryan Petersen interview.…
2022-01-03
Hillary Predko recaps the things that grabbed our attention most in 2021.…
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