I was dropping my friend Sarah’s daughter off at school last month when I accidentally took a wrong turn and ended up in the basement hallway of Roosevelt Elementary. Honestly?…
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…
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…
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 never thought I’d be the guy giving home design advice, but here we are. After years of trial and error – and I mean *lots* of errors – trying…
I’ve been obsessing over London’s approach to bringing nature into urban spaces ever since I stumbled across an article about their “nature deficit disorder” initiatives. As someone who’s spent the…
I never thought I’d spend my evening reading industrial engineering papers about air pollution control systems, but here we are. It all started when I was researching air quality impacts…
The morning sun was hitting the raised garden bed I built for my wife at just the right angle when I noticed something that made me stop and really pay…
# Finding a Restore Design Company: What I Learned From My Search NEW_TITLE: Finding a Restore Design Company: What I Learned From My Search My neighbor Sarah knocked on my…
Last week, my eight-year-old granddaughter came with me to the medical complex where my wife has her physical therapy appointments. Standing in that lobby – all shiny surfaces and harsh…
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…
I noticed something weird in my productivity data last month. My focus metrics were consistently 15-20% higher on certain days, but I couldn’t figure out what was different. Sleep was…
I’ve been tracking high-end biophilic design installations for about three years now – started as a side curiosity when I kept seeing productivity research about natural elements, but it’s turned…
When my son was first diagnosed with ADHD at six, I’ll be honest – I panicked a little. Not about the diagnosis itself (I’d been reading about ADHD for months…