I’ve been thinking a lot lately about something that struck me during a recent doctor’s appointment. The waiting room was one of those typical medical office spaces – fluorescent lights…
When I sit in my greenhouse these days, watching my wife tend to her winter herbs and listening to the small fountain I installed last year, it strikes me how…
When I started optimizing my home office for productivity a few years back, I was mainly focused on personal metrics – focus time, task completion rates, mental fatigue levels. What…
Living in the same house for nearly four decades gives you a front-row seat to how communities grow and change around you. What started as farmland beyond our back fence…
So here’s something I never thought I’d be writing about – faux leather in a nature-inspired home. I know, I know. It sounds completely contradictory. When I first started getting…
I stumbled across Biophilic Design LAM about eight months ago while researching why my productivity metrics kept fluctuating. As someone who tracks everything about my work environment, I was seeing…
When I first started optimizing my home office setup, I’ll admit I was focused on the obvious stuff – ergonomic chair, fast internet, decent monitor. Natural light wasn’t even on…
Look, I never thought I’d be the guy who has strong opinions about window coverings, but here we are. It started during those brutal 3am feeding sessions with our daughter…
Okay, so I need to tell you about something that basically saved my sanity during the pandemic – and it wasn’t therapy or meditation apps or any of that stuff…
# How I Got Obsessed with the Secret Math Behind Leaf Arrangements (And Why It Changed How I See My Garden) I was having coffee on my fire escape last…
When my wife had her stroke eight years ago, I started reading about something called biophilic design – basically bringing natural elements into your living space. At first, it sounded…
When I step out our back door these days, I’m struck by how much more aware I’ve become of the sounds around me. The rustle of leaves in the maple…
Look, I spend way too much time staring at screens already – between work, doom-scrolling Instagram, and watching Netflix in my tiny studio – so the idea that technology might…
Living in a tiny Chicago apartment with basically no natural light has taught me more about plants than I ever expected to know. When I started trying to bring some…
So here’s something weird that happened to me last week. I was standing on our building’s rooftop garden, watering the tomatoes, when I realized that one side of my body…