Paper Trails
Starting 2021-07-16, The Prepared’s Reading group is reading Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West - Cameron Blevins’ history of the USPS…
Scope of Work
Excellent writing about the physical world.
2021-07-12
Spencer Wright on Dr. Bronners GHG emissions, cellulose carbamate production, and the emotional experience of physical exertion.…
2021-07-05
Spencer Wright on the FAA's right of way rules, the way noise affects productivity, and Bagel Bakers Local 338.…
Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies
Our buildings are often long lived things, capable of outlasting the society that produced them. The Egyptian Pyramids are still…
2021-06-28
Spencer Wright on shared workshops, the good guy guarantee, and CFM's new open-rotor gas turbine.…
2021-06-21
Maybe it was the global pandemic, or maybe it’s just getting older and feeling my own delicate corporeality: I’ve started...…
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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…
2021-06-14
The Prepared’s reading group recently finished The Innovation Delusion, the premise of which is that society worships innovation, undervalues...…
2021-06-07
With their astronomical cost, each tiny part of any aerospace mission has to be carefully considered. It sounds obvious...…
Full Spectrum
Starting 2021-06-04, Members at Scope of Work are learning about the science of color and how exactly these colors are…
2021-05-31
In March 2020, I abdicated the lifestyle of an intellectually promiscuous on-demand fixer of hardware, design, and production projects...…
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...…
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