My neighbor knocked on my door last Tuesday night – right during dinner, actually – asking if I’d seen Ashley Furniture’s sustainability commercial during the game. “Are they actually green…
Last month I found myself 47 stories up in Milan’s Bosco Verticale, pressed against floor-to-ceiling windows while watching maintenance crews tend to living walls that cascade down like green waterfalls.…
Three months ago, I found myself standing in what used to be a concrete plaza in downtown Portland, watching city workers install this pop-up forest installation. I know this sounds…
I was standing in a Mumbai office lobby last month with my laptop out, timing how long people spent near this massive living wall by the elevators. Sounds weird, I…
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 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’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…
I’ll admit it – when I first heard about mycelium insulation, I thought it sounded like something from a sci-fi movie. Mushroom roots that eat agricultural waste and turn into…
Back when I started optimizing my own home office, I was pretty focused on my personal productivity metrics. But spending hours reading research about natural light and plants led me…
Three months ago, I found myself standing in a 1920s bank lobby in Portland, watching restoration specialists carefully remove dropped ceiling tiles to reveal original coffered plasterwork that hadn’t seen…
I’ve been tracking my home office productivity metrics for years now, and one pattern kept nagging at me: my best work days consistently happened when I spent time on my…
So I went down a bit of a research rabbit hole last quarter that started with me trying to optimize my own workspace and ended with me buried in academic…
My manager called me last month asking if I’d noticed anything different about our team’s performance metrics. We’re all remote, but he’d been tracking project completion rates and noticed some…
I’m sitting in my home office this morning, looking at the small air quality monitor on my desk that’s showing steadily improving numbers since I installed those plants two years…
I started tracking something weird in my productivity data recently – not my usual metrics like focus time or task completion rates, but how much confusion around workspace terminology was…