public Project Notes • 9 min read On Latex The geography and logistics of pre-industrial rubber production.…
public Project Notes • 8 min read A Supply Chain in the Jungle How did Foxconn arrive at the inaccessible heart of the Amazon rainforest?…
public Project Notes • 5 min read Notes, 2023-04-17 Over the first five years of its existence, this newsletter averaged around six hundred and fifty words per issue, a…
public Project Notes • 12 min read Notes, 2023-04-03 Spencer Wright on jobsites, workshops, and mechanical wisdom.…
5 min read The Prepared is now Scope of Work Spencer Wright on what "The Prepared" has meant, and how "Scope of Work" is different.…
public Interview • 10 min read Learning at Scale An Interview with Stewart Brand A few months ago Stewart Brand, a reader of this newsletter, signed up to become…
public Feature • 7 min read A Symbiotic Truce On composites, crayfish, and reinforced concrete's tentative alkalinity. For most of a red swamp crayfish’s life, cambarincola barbarae are…
public 5 min read 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…
public Interview • 5 min read Apple is Using "100% Recycled" Aluminum. What does that mean? Something about Apple's MacBook Air announcements last week struck me: The claim about its enclosure being…