So I saw the Amazon Spheres trending on my Instagram feed again last week – you know, those massive glass dome things in Seattle that look like giant snow globes…
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…
I’ll be honest – before I started optimizing my home office, I thought architecture was just about making buildings look nice. Then I read some research about how physical environments…
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…
When I started tracking the correlation between my workspace environment and productivity metrics, I stumbled into something bigger than just optimizing my home office. The data kept pointing to patterns…
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…
So here’s something that bugs me every time I visit our company’s main office for quarterly meetings: the complete disconnection from anything natural. Fluorescent lighting, beige walls, zero plants, no…
# Why I Think Biophilic Design Isn’t Just Pretty—It Might Actually Save Us You know that amazing smell after it rains? That earthy, clean scent that makes you want to…
I was consulting on productivity metrics for a company in Atlanta about five years ago, and their downtown office was basically a case study in how to kill employee performance.…
You know what I’ve been obsessing over lately? How our house changes throughout the year. I was sitting in the kitchen this morning, watching my daughter eat breakfast in this…
When I first started working from home during the pandemic, I literally set up my laptop on my kitchen table facing a brick wall. My one window shows nothing but…
I was at Target the other day – just picking up printer paper and somehow ending up with $150 worth of stuff I didn’t need – when I realized something.…
I’ve been working from home for six years now, and like most remote workers, I’ve gotten pretty obsessed with optimizing my workspace. But recently I started wondering about something bigger…