Project Notes
Things learned in the course of work.
42 posts
White Elephant.
It’s not a cure for waste or a cure for loneliness, but it’s something.…
Notes, 2024-02-05.
Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the enduring appeal of Antarctic exploration.…
Notes, 2024-01-29.
Spencer Wright on adoquines, the Nacirema, and public benefit corporations.…
On Documentation
Here’s a partial list of surprising things about human technology:
* Throughout history, when someone has learned something that they…
Tallow to Margarine
TW Lim on how we went from mining nature for particular fats, to mining fats for their components.…
How Slow Scan TV Shaped The Moon
lee wilkins on slow scan TV, the technology that brought the moon landing to the masses.…
Notes, 2023-12-11
James Coleman on the complexity of incentive structures around negative emissions technologies.…
Notes, 2023-12-04.
With 2023 drawing to a close, I have a New Year’s resolution: I will do more field reporting. This…
Plastic Archeology.
George Cave on the evolution of Lego and the archeology of plastic.…
Accord of the Rings
Hillary Predko on the strange and powerful Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer.…
On Community.
Hillary Predko on how the SOW community has infiltrated her life.…