Learning at Scale
An Interview with Stewart Brand
A few months ago Stewart Brand, a reader of this newsletter, signed up to become…
Scope of Work
Excellent writing about the physical world.
Electrify
Starting 2022-02-04, The Prepared’s Reading Group is reading Saul Griffith’s Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for our Clean Energy Future.…
2022-01-31
Lee Wilkins on the Overview Effect, waterjet cake cutting, and kanji typewriters.…
2022-01-24
Spencer Wright on Sitka spruce helicopter blades, sewer pipe relining, and snow plow ballet.…
2022-01-17
James Coleman on digital twins, Rivian's upcoming Georgia facility, and dumb boxes.…
2022-01-10
Spencer Wright on how to ship horses via air, the JWST, and that Ryan Petersen interview.…
2022-01-03
Hillary Predko recaps the things that grabbed our attention most in 2021.…
2021-12-27
Spencer Wright on caring for an old house, the inception of AWS, and flinging satellites into space.…
2021-12-20
Hillary Predko on mahogany, funerals, and shipping monopolies.…
2021-12-13
Sean Kelley on better questions for performance reviews, the tungsten cube craze, and the chip shortage.…
Glass Act
The Coanda effect and why we transform nuclear waste into borosilicate glass.
Every week, after the flagship Monday issue of…
2021-12-06
Kelly and Anna Pendergrast on the Bay Model, low tech cooking, and the politics of measurement.…
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