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.

2015-09-26

Notes. I wrote up some thoughts I've had about design optimization, design complexity, and additive manufacturing. They're things that I'

2015-09-20

Notes. Zach wrote a really good retrospective on our sourcing trip to China for The Public Radio. It's kind of a must-read

2015-09-12

Notes. I wrote a thing yesterday about the extent to which I'm an engineer. Here it is. Pathfinding. * I know a venture backed

2015-09-05

Notes. I'm *finally* listening to The Toyota Way on audiobook. It's long overdue. Two short blog posts of mine: One about

2015-08-31

Notes. I really, really can't recommend the Wait But Why post on Elon Musk & SpaceX enough. It that whole series doesn'

2015-08-24

Notes. I've been learning Materialise Magics over the past week. Magics is kind of the linchpin of the additive manufacturing production chain right