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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…
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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Notes, 2023-04-03
Spencer Wright on jobsites, workshops, and mechanical wisdom.…
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2023-01-09
Spencer Wright on the residential construction industry, the perils of project management, and the naïveté of someone in their early twenties…
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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.…
2022-11-28
Spencer Wright on the projects -- and tools -- that sustained him this year.…
2022-09-26
Spencer Wright on sincerity, termites, and concrete wave dissipation systems.…
2022-05-30
Spencer Wright on shared tool ownership, the intricacies of masonry repair, and listening to icebergs.…
2022-03-21
Spencer Wright on rotor ships, daylight "saving" time, and an outlandish theory about the Fermi paradox…
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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…
2022-01-24
Spencer Wright on Sitka spruce helicopter blades, sewer pipe relining, and snow plow ballet.…
2022-01-10
Spencer Wright on how to ship horses via air, the JWST, and that Ryan Petersen interview.…