My old desktop computer finally gave up the ghost last month. Right in the middle of trying to help our church secretary figure out the new video system for streaming…
html Reviewed by Jeff for Biophilic Flair Look, I’ll be honest — when I first picked up Biophilic Design for Beginners by Laurel Ashby, I was skeptical. I’ve read enough…
I’ve been tracking my productivity metrics for about five years now, but it wasn’t until I visited my colleague Sarah’s place last week that I realized I’d been missing a…
I’m standing in my kitchen at 6:30 AM, trying to pack lunches while my coffee gets cold, and I’m completely distracted by how the morning light is hitting the herb…
I was scrolling through one of those parenting forums at 2am last week (don’t judge – my son had strep and wasn’t sleeping), when I came across this incredible story…
I was staring at my productivity spreadsheet last Tuesday when I had this realization that’s been bothering me for weeks. After six years of remote work and three years of…
I never really understood how much my workspace affected me until I started working from home during the pandemic. Like most parents, I’d cobbled together a “home office” in whatever…
You know what’s weird? Before I had kids, I never really thought about why certain spaces felt good and others felt… off. Like, I knew our old downtown condo felt…
About six months ago, I was helping my neighbor Marcus install a new garbage disposal in his condo kitchen. This was a gorgeous space – he’d spent more on those…
# What I Learned About the Regenerative Design Process After Accidentally Killing My Yard So this is going to sound ridiculous, but my obsession with regenerative design started because I…
I’ve been tracking biophilic design trends for the past few months—partly for my own workspace optimization research, partly because I’m genuinely curious about how quickly this stuff is moving from…
Okay, so I get this question a lot on my blog – people want to know where they can get officially trained in biophilic design. Like, is there some fancy…
Okay, so I’ve been getting DMs asking about regenerative design PDFs pretty much daily lately, and I totally understand why. When you’re trying to figure out how to make your…
You know, when you’ve lived in the same house as long as I have, you start to notice things about how spaces affect people. My wife and I have been…
I was scrolling through urban planning Twitter last week when I saw a thread that made me stop mid-scroll: a landscape architect talking about a housing development in Portland where…