Like most folks who spend too much time on The Tubes, I’m signed up for dozens of newsletters that I rarely, if ever, crack open. But I never do a thoughtless delete of The Prepared, a weekly publication about the nitty-gritty of how complex and gargantuan objects get made. Though a fair chunk of each […]
Tags:engineering·manufacturing·newsletters·recommended·The Prepared·the sublime
As part of a new routine designed to get me out of a creative rut, I’m aiming to start each weekday with a short post. Most will be culled from the mile-long list of bookmarks I’ve compiled over the years—an assemblage of arcane papers, defunct blogs, and curious news items that caught my fancy at […]
Tags:Czechoslovakia·manufacturing·North Korea·propaganda·psychology·Soviet Union
I somehow went almost an entire month without pimping my latest Wired feature, which appears in the March issue (alongside Joel Johnson‘s excellent cover story on the Foxconn suicides). The piece is a deeply reported essay that tackles a tricky business proposition: For companies that make products out of atoms, does manufacturing in China and […]
