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.

2018-09-24

Planning & Strategy. * An excellent overview of Costco's business model. Costco makes almost double Amazon's revenue per employee, and more than

2018-09-18

Planning & Strategy. * Me, writing about 3MF putting all of our specs on GitHub - something I've been thinking about for five years. * A

2018-09-10

Planning & Strategy. * Me, writing about margins and strategy and making sacrifices. * In their 2018 annual report, Altium (which is primarily known for their electronic

2018-09-04

Planning & Strategy. * GlobalFoundries shut down their effort to move to a 7 nm process node, leaving only three semiconductor foundries (Intel, Samsung, and TSMC)

2018-08-27

Planning & Strategy. * A very wonky and very bearish analysis of Intel's server business. * On the unique difficulties in starting businesses with significant

2018-08-20

Planning & Strategy. * 5G has been in the news a lot lately, with several new phone annoucements and Verizon's wireless TV pitch. 2019