Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr describes in detail the inner workings of Amazon, including the development of…
Maintenance is palpable
We moved into an old house this month. Built over 80 years ago, you can sense the builder’s personality in…
An ode to cavernous spaces
Do not feel small when you enter a cavernous space. For you have just set foot into an enormous catchment…
Why we should direct more attention to embodied emissions and concrete / cement
Why focus on embodied emissions? When I surveyed the landscape of Embodied, Operational, and End-of-Life emissions in the built environment…
From Comfort to Constraint
We moved our bees this spring. From the grid of an urban environment close to the freeway to a meandering…
Willing to Learn
Earlier this 2021, Mary Catherine Bateson passed away while surrounded by her family. I never had the chance to meet…
Embodied & Operational
Cross-posting from buildincentive.com On distinctions and relationships of abstract terms We became parents to a beehive this past March. While…
My moonshot idea
What’s YOUR moonshot idea? Here’s one of mine– Decentralized Autonomous HVAC Next steps for clean indoor air & new kinds…
The Arch. of Complexity, the points that resonate
The points that resonate Herbert Simon’s The Architecture of Complexity is the text I keep returning to when reflecting backwards…
Text notes: Architecture of Complexity
A summary of Herbert Simon’s 1962 essay, “The Architecture of Complexity“ INTRODUCTION Useful concepts from Cybernetics: Feedback, Homeostasis, Analyzing “adaptiveness”…