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A conversation with labor historian Joshua B. Freeman about his book, Behemoth: The History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

Hey everybody, this is Spencer. As you may have noticed, this feed has been pretty sleepy over the past year and a half. Part of this was conscious - The Prepared has always been first and foremost a newsletter - but ultimately it just kind of got away from me. And for that, I apologize.And, I wanted to tell you that things may be picking up a little bit: The first episode of what I'm somewhat arbitrarily calling "Season 3" of The Prepared's podcast will be hitting this feed later today. And while I'm not sure exactly where it'll go from there, I'm looking forward to doing more interviews & features here in the coming months.In the meantime, The Prepared's newsletter is maintaining its steadfast weekly rhythm. If you don't already, I really do recommend subscribing here - it's quite good :)That's all for now - check this feed later today for more!

We visit GE's Additive Technology Center in Cincinnati and hear the history of GE Additive.

Adam Minter is a columnist at Bloomberg and author of Junkyard Planet - Travels in the Billion Dollar Trash-Trade.

We talk with Anna Shedletsky about analyzing and identifying manufacturing defects.

We talk about auto manufacturing & Toyota City with Lucas Lappe

Spencer and Zach recap ~10 months of US-based consumer electronics manufacturing.

We talk with Rony about manufacturing engineering, industrial alphabet soup, and how Tulip is making operations faster and more flexible.

This week we talk with Kipp Bradford about low volume/high value manufacturing, the tradeoffs of domestic & international trade, and Kipp's varied & impressive career history.

We talk with Danielle Applestone of Bantam Tools about the state of desktop manufacturing, the gender gap in engineering, and doing business with DARPA.

We talk to Tara Pham about Numina, doing business with cities, and running a small startup.

We talk with Max about what it's like to develop rockets. Crazy, right?

A quick intro to Season 2 of The Prepared's podcast! The first real episode of the season will drop in the next few days

We talk to Mo McBirney about manufacturing engineering and her career working at Tesla and Makerbot.

Reilly Brennan is an investor, industry observer, and writer of the excellent Future of Transportation newsletter. In this episode, we discuss all aspects of innovation in transportation today.

We talk to CW&T about running a two-person product studio.

We talk to Liz Corbin about nitinol, aerogel, and other spectacular materials.

Spencer talks to Craig Cannon about The Container Guide, doing projects with friends, and podcasting.

We talk to Janet Lieberman, CTO of Dame Products, about the intricacies of engineering and manufacturing sex toys.

We talk to Jonathan Cedar about BioLite's business, mission, running a consumer product recall, and the process of obtaining carbon credits.