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Alexis, Oakland, and the Port
In ways that are almost spooky, Oakland ends up concentrating so many of the problems of the Bay Area…
Reading Group
To explore topics in the built world more deeply, join Scope of Work’s Members’ Reading Group. Each week we host a video chat to discuss a Member-chosen book, article, or paper, with additional midweek chatter on the Members’ Slack. Participants from overlapping fields bring insights to the topic at hand, making for fascinating threads and illuminating tangents. We also often have special guests (authors, industry experts, etc) join us for one session per book.
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We're reading Building SimCity
For people of a certain age—my age—the memory of playing SimCity, probably on a desktop computer in a public part of your childhood home, is an iconic and evocative part of early nerd culture. SimCity was…
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Anything that Lets Me See More of the World
An interview with Tim Hwang about infra-nerd tours, the internet ad market, and work in the age of parenthood.…
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Frostbitten
A conversation with Nicola Twilley about refrigeration.…
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Nicola Looks at Refrigerators
On location with Nicola Twilley, cold chain nerd extraordinaire…
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A Music-Making Machine
Nick Seaver on music technology, from the player piano to the algorithmically-generated playlist.…
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Bare Beauty, Beyond Euclid
Jordan Ellenberg calls geometry “the cilantro of math,” which is to say that few people feel neutral about it. His…
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We're reading Dust
Dust is so ubiquitous that most people barely notice it. Jay Owens is an exception. She has been paying close…
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Byte-Sized History
An Interview with Laine Nooney, author of The Apple II Age…
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We're reading Shape
While I still traverse Cartesian planes in CAD, most of the geometry I learned in school is now a distant…
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We're reading The Apple II Age
Personal computing has long since arrived: Our lives and homes are bursting at the seams with computers; old phones and…
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Make Big Plans
An interview with Bent Flyvbjerg, author of How Big Things Get Done…