2021-11-01
Surjan Singh on high stakes engineering education, being killed by your own inventions, and Nomex honeycomb.
Writing about work, attention, and the built world
Surjan Singh on high stakes engineering education, being killed by your own inventions, and Nomex honeycomb.
A conversation with Michael S. Malone on the history of Silicon Valley. In 1985, Charlie Sporck, then president of National Semiconductor, sat down with Michael
Spencer Wright on unsuccessful repair efforts, international standards organizations, and the Schwinn Varsity.
Hillary Predko on bizarre Alibaba finds, San Francisco's bespoke trash cans, and the precise definition of flotsam and jetsam.
Starting 2021-10-15, Scope of Work’s Reading Group is reading The New Breed: What our History with Animals Reveals About our Future with
Kate McMahon on fire insurance maps, DARPA's Subterranean Challenge, and combined sewers.