Five Books for 2025
It's a time for reflection.…
Excellent writing about the physical world.
Scope Creep, 2025-12-08.
I do not know how they got away with it.…
The Fall
In all, an almost pleasant experience.…
Scope Creep, 2025-11-10.
The opposite of deasil is widdershins.…
How to Sail a Building
Domestic calm is what I'm after, come hell or high water.…
Scope Creep, 2025-10-27.
Whoever buys it will probably expeller-press it.…
Postcards, Part 11
Sitting on the plane, I wondered if there were any limits to my unpreparedeness.…
On Factory Tours.
I have a core memory of touring a Phillip Morris cigarette factory when I was a kid. My mom and…
Notes, 2025-10-13.
So, 75 years passed between power stations being economically viable, and power being available to nine out of ten of farm homes…
Notes, 2025-10-06.
For some reason here it's the acetone that I find myself captivated by…
Notes, 2025-09-29
A form of inquiry through which you catch sight of your errors…
Spencer Wright is the (mostly accidental) founder of Scope of Work, which he started writing (as The Prepared) in 2013. Today he serves as its editor-in-chief and chief dilettante.
Hillary Predko is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who works across the boundaries of craft and computation with a penchant for trash.
Excellent writing about the physical world.
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