2023-01-30 — Scope of Work
Kelly and Anna Pendergrast on rising to the challenges wrought by disasters, corralling invasive carp, and subsea cable chokepoints.
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2023-01-23 — Scope of Work
Amreeta Duttchoudhury on the joys of unfinished projects, tool-in ceremonies, and the recent NOTAM outage.
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2023-01-09 — Scope of Work
Spencer Wright on the structure of the residential construction industry, the perils of project management, and the naïveté of someone in their early twenties.
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2022-12-19 — The Prepared
Hillary Predko on muscle memory, Hudson Yards, and plutonium safety at Los Alamos.
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2022-12-05 — The Prepared
George Cave on the limitations of job titles, how car-first thinking permeates language, and why company names can no longer “consist of or include computer code.”
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2022-11-28 — The Prepared
Spencer Wright on the projects — and the tools — that sustained him in 2022.
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2022-11-21 — The Prepared
TW Lim on industrial production and staple foods - from the ways geopolitics influence our diets to the intricacies of flour inspection.
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2022-11-14 — The Prepared
SJ Jones on all things additive: policy changes, repair processes, and milestones for 3D printed rockets.
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2022-11-07 — The Prepared
Skyler Adams on TikTok's smart home infomercials, a nuclear-powered passenger ship, and "supply chain scenes".
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2022-10-31 — The Prepared
lee wilkins on AI image generation, automata, and the history of visualizing the cosmos.
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2022-10-24 — The Prepared
Kane Hsieh on waste-to-energy power plants, artificial ski surfaces, and V5 motorcycle engines.
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2022-10-17 — The Prepared
James Coleman on surprisingly versatile tools, the ISM index, and a field of giant umbrellas in Saudi Arabia.
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The Supply Chain Africa Needs
Comparing product development stories across the continent At a conference in Nairobi two years ago, an engineer visiting from Rotterdam stunned me with how easy it was for his team to order electronic components: an order for a BLE chip placed on Thursday evening would be fulfilled by lunch on Fri
