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.

2018-10-08

Planning & Strategy. * Rethink Robotics shut down. Rethink - and Baxter, its flagship product, and Rodney Brooks, its founder - have been quite literally the face of

2018-09-24

Planning & Strategy. * An excellent overview of Costco's business model. Costco makes almost double Amazon's revenue per employee, and more than

2018-09-18

Planning & Strategy. * Me, writing about 3MF putting all of our specs on GitHub - something I've been thinking about for five years. * A

2018-09-10

Planning & Strategy. * Me, writing about margins and strategy and making sacrifices. * In their 2018 annual report, Altium (which is primarily known for their electronic

2018-09-04

Planning & Strategy. * GlobalFoundries shut down their effort to move to a 7 nm process node, leaving only three semiconductor foundries (Intel, Samsung, and TSMC)

2018-08-27

Planning & Strategy. * A very wonky and very bearish analysis of Intel's server business. * On the unique difficulties in starting businesses with significant