Last month I was driving around Austin’s east side looking for a decent standing desk on Craigslist when I spotted this warehouse with “Restore Design Center” painted across the front.…
# Discovering the Hidden World of Habitat for Humanity ReStore Design Centers NEW_TITLE: How My Random Thrift Store Visit Changed How I Think About Sustainable Design You know how sometimes…
Okay, so there’s this thing that happens when you walk into certain spaces where your body just goes “oh, thank god” and relaxes in a way you didn’t even realize…
Honestly, some of my best productivity improvements have come from workspace experiments where I spent maybe $200 total. I’m not kidding. While people obsess over thousand-dollar ergonomic setups and smart…
# Why Some Spaces Make You Feel Like Crap (And What I Learned From Fixing Mine) Yesterday morning, I was messing around with my little tabletop fountain again – you…
I’ve been tracking the biophilic coverage from the past month and something’s shifted. It’s not just design magazines anymore—it’s real estate platforms, wellness investors, workplace consultants, and institutional facilities all…
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.…
I’ve become that person who notices everything wrong with office spaces. Can’t help it anymore. Last month I was visiting my friend Sarah at her downtown office – one of…
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…
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…
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 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…