Spencer Wright on antique apple parers, and how an old tool can force you to confront a problem anew.

George Cave on the evolution of Lego and the archeology of plastic.

It used to be rare that more than a couple of sentences at a time were cut from drafts of this newsletter. For years I wrote mostly in bulleted lists, making it easy to include things that [...]

Hillary Predko on the strange and powerful Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer.

Surgery Simulation AMA with Andrew Edman

TW Lim on palm oil, the primordial goop of our packaged consumer economy.

An Interview with Laine Nooney, author of The Apple II Age

Hillary Predko on how the SOW community has infiltrated her life.

Jan Heine on the physics of pneumatic tires, the rise of gravel cycling, and his role in the bike industry.