Scope of Work
Excellent writing about the physical world.
Notes, 2024-02-16.
Scope creep, scope creep, and more scope creep.…
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Notes, 2024-02-12.
I think we had only been in Aberdeen for a couple of hours. Yes – we had landed in Aberdeen in…
Notes, 2024-02-09.
A few pithy threads to tug on at the end of the week.…
Notes, 2024-02-05.
Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the enduring appeal of Antarctic exploration.…
Notes, 2024-02-01.
Spencer Wright on cobblestone construction, tire dust collection, and File Filosophy.…
Notes, 2024-01-29.
Spencer Wright on adoquines, the Nacirema, and public benefit corporations.…
On Documentation
Here’s a partial list of surprising things about human technology:
* Throughout history, when someone has learned something that they…
Tallow to Margarine
TW Lim on how we went from mining nature for particular fats, to mining fats for their components.…
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Bare Beauty, Beyond Euclid
Jordan Ellenberg calls geometry “the cilantro of math,” which is to say that few people feel neutral about it. His…
Strangers on boats.
When my grandmother immigrated to Canada from Scotland, she brought a trunk full of her grandmother’s photo albums, which…
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