The Prepared Archive

Amreeta Duttchoudhury on the joys of unfinished projects, tool-in ceremonies, and the recent NOTAM outage.…

Harrison Lin on light – from calculating the air mass coefficient to the color rendering index.…

Spencer Wright on the residential construction industry, the perils of project management, and the naïveté of someone in their early twenties…

Hillary Predko on what we published in 2022.…

tl;dr: The Prepared is changing our name to Scope of Work. Here’s why, and what it means.…

Hillary Predko on muscle memory, Hudson Yards, and plutonium safety at Los Alamos.…

Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the thermal stability of the soil beneath out feet and our capacity to harness it with ground source heat pumps.…

George Cave on the limitations of job titles, how car-first thinking permeates language, and why company names can't include computer code.…

Spencer Wright on the projects -- and tools -- that sustained him this year.…

TW Lim on industrial production and staple foods - from the ways geopolitics influence our diets to the intricacies of flour inspection.…

SJ Jones on all things additive: policy changes, repair processes, and milestones for 3D printed rockets.…

Skyler Adams on TikTok's smart home infomercials, a nuclear-powered passenger ship, and "supply chain scenes".…