2023-01-23
Amreeta Duttchoudhury on the joys of unfinished projects, tool-in ceremonies, and the recent NOTAM outage.…
The Prepared Archive
From late 2013 through late 2022, we published a weekly newsletter called The Prepared; it evolved into Scope of Work in 2023. Our Members- and Supporters-only archive includes all back issues from this time period.
469 posts
2023-01-16
Harrison Lin on light – from calculating the air mass coefficient to the color rendering index.…
2023-01-09
Spencer Wright on the residential construction industry, the perils of project management, and the naïveté of someone in their early twenties…
2023-01-02
Hillary Predko on what we published in 2022.…
2022-12-19
Hillary Predko on muscle memory, Hudson Yards, and plutonium safety at Los Alamos.…
2022-12-12
Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the thermal stability of the soil beneath out feet and our capacity to harness it with ground source heat pumps.…
2022-12-05
George Cave on the limitations of job titles, how car-first thinking permeates language, and why company names can't include computer code.…
2022-11-28
Spencer Wright on the projects -- and tools -- that sustained him this year.…
2022-11-21
TW Lim on industrial production and staple foods - from the ways geopolitics influence our diets to the intricacies of flour inspection.…
TW Lim
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2022-11-14
SJ Jones on all things additive: policy changes, repair processes, and milestones for 3D printed rockets.…
SJ Jones
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2022-11-07
Skyler Adams on TikTok's smart home infomercials, a nuclear-powered passenger ship, and "supply chain scenes".…
2022-10-31
lee wilkins on AI image generation, automata, and the history of visualizing the cosmos.…
