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.

2014-08-01

Pathing. * An excellent piece on the (terrible) way we teach math in the US. * A great explanation of Fermi Estimates. * New ASTM standards include metal

2014-07-25

Pathing. * Google's Project Zero is a bunch of hackers being paid to expose vulnerabilities around the web. * Boston Dynamics AlphaDog is training with

2014-07-18

Pathing. * LeBron James on why he's returning to Cleveland. * Reid Hoffman says that companies should be honest with their employees about how long

2014-07-11

Pathing. * The Presenter's Paradox. <<== Read this. * ...and why it makes me feel particularly uneasy. * An argument for generalists in business. * A

2014-07-04

Pathing. * Some touching data on the characteristics of successful relationships. * A proposal for how the YMCA should take their water consumption more seriously. * An excellent

2014-06-27

Pathing. * The principle of suboptimization. * A criticism of "sharing economies" as tools for self-exploitation. * "The dream isn't the wallet