What can a Building Technologist do about Climate Change?

Title inspired by Bret Victor’s piece “What can a Technologist do about Climate Change?“ Something that has been swirling in … More

The kind of problem a building is

Concluding her famous book, Jane Jacobs writes: “Cities happen to be problems in organized complexity.” From sidewalks of access to … More

Attention “We rarely attend to what we know.” That’s what urban geographer Yi-Fu Tuan writes in his book Space and Place. … More

PART 1. “Organizations are systems of behavior designed to enable humans to accomplish their goals” –Herb Simon, The Shape of Automation … More

Books (with sprinkling of articles & podcasts) that have stuck with me throughout 2018 Scale by G West Engineering Systems by … More

Rough notes from a weeklong revisit to China: Beijing, Wuhan, Changsha, Kunming. Mix of travel tips and reflection, with summarizing … More

Over dinner with my former colleague ZZ in Changsha, he mentioned something that caught my attention. “You know in China, … More

The hutongs north of Beijing’s Forbidden City have always been my favorite part of the city. Narrow alleyways, curving about, … More

This year, I’ve been fascinated by Herb Simon. We’re on nickname terms, he and I. There is much that Herb … More

The following is an elaborated transcription from an in-person dialogue on Infrastructure. For a more navigable version of this content, … More