2021-12-27
Spencer Wright on caring for an old house, the inception of AWS, and flinging satellites into space.…
Scope of Work
Excellent writing about the physical world.
2021-12-20
Hillary Predko on mahogany, funerals, and shipping monopolies.…
2021-12-13
Sean Kelley on better questions for performance reviews, the tungsten cube craze, and the chip shortage.…
Glass Act
The Coanda effect and why we transform nuclear waste into borosilicate glass.
Every week, after the flagship Monday issue of…
2021-12-06
Kelly and Anna Pendergrast on the Bay Model, low tech cooking, and the politics of measurement.…
2021-11-29
Spencer Wright on all of the tools that made hard projects fun in 2021.…
How Buildings Learn
Starting 2021-11-26, The Prepared’s Reading Group is reading How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by designer, inventor, and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog Steward Brand.…
2021-11-22
Divya Manian on the social mission of Lucas Aerospace, SF's infrastructure, and the capitalist invention of time.…
Don't Kick the Robot
A conversation with Kate Darling on our future with robots
Dr. Kate Darling is a researcher at the MIT Media…
2021-11-15
SJ Jones on leaving toxic work environments, mini nuclear reactors, and FDA inspection delays.…
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2021-11-08
Kane Hsieh on the the Orfield challenge, gashapon, and reviving Roman concrete.…
Reinventing the Wheel
An interview with Alex Animashaun of the Tuck Bike
A few months ago, Alex Animashaun presented his prototyping process at…
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