For Good Measure
An interview with James Vincent, author of Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants.…
Scope of Work
Excellent writing about the physical world.
Notes, 2023-02-13
Hillary Predko on buildingsheds, reducing carbon emissions from steel production, and anonymously authored designs.…
Notes, 2023-02-06
lee wilkins on the intersections of textiles and computing, historical media storage, and liquid mirror telescopes.…
Notes, 2023-01-30
Kelly and Anna Pendergrast on rising to the challenges wrought by disasters, corralling invasive carp, and subsea cable chokepoints.…
2023-01-23
Amreeta Duttchoudhury on the joys of unfinished projects, tool-in ceremonies, and the recent NOTAM outage.…
2023-01-16
Harrison Lin on light – from calculating the air mass coefficient to the color rendering index.…
2023-01-09
Spencer Wright on the residential construction industry, the perils of project management, and the naïveté of someone in their early twenties…
Secondhand
Starting 2023-01-06, Scope of Work’s Reading Group is reading Adam Minter’s Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage…
2023-01-02
Hillary Predko on what we published in 2022.…
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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.…
2022-12-19
Hillary Predko on muscle memory, Hudson Yards, and plutonium safety at Los Alamos.…
On Chindogu
The near-universal comedy of technological failure
The story goes that Thomas Edison ran thousands of failed experiments before landing on…
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