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On Latex
The geography and logistics of pre-industrial rubber production.…
Spencer Wright
Spencer Wright is the (mostly accidental) founder of Scope of Work, which he started writing (as The Prepared) in 2013. Today he serves as its editor-in-chief and chief dilettante.
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A Supply Chain in the Jungle
How did Foxconn arrive at the inaccessible heart of the Amazon rainforest?…
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Notes, 2023-04-17
Over the first five years of its existence, this newsletter averaged around six hundred and fifty words per issue, a…
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Notes, 2023-04-03
Spencer Wright on jobsites, workshops, and mechanical wisdom.…
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The Prepared is now Scope of Work
Spencer Wright on what "The Prepared" has meant, and how "Scope of Work" is different.…
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Learning at Scale
An Interview with Stewart Brand
A few months ago Stewart Brand, a reader of this newsletter, signed up to become…
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A Symbiotic Truce
On composites, crayfish, and reinforced concrete's tentative alkalinity.
For most of a red swamp crayfish’s life, cambarincola barbarae are…
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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…
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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…