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…
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…
I keep coming back to something that happened when I visited the Amazon Spheres in Seattle with my kids last year. We were there for vacation, and I figured I’d…
I’m standing in my kitchen at 6:30 AM, trying to pack lunches while my coffee gets cold, and I’m completely distracted by how the morning light is hitting the herb…
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…
# What I Learned About the Regenerative Design Process After Accidentally Killing My Yard So this is going to sound ridiculous, but my obsession with regenerative design started because I…
Okay, so I’ve been getting DMs asking about regenerative design PDFs pretty much daily lately, and I totally understand why. When you’re trying to figure out how to make your…
I fell down this rabbit hole about regenerative building design after seeing some absolutely mind-blowing Instagram posts from people living in homes that literally improved the land around them. I…
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?…
# When Buildings Actually Give Back – My Journey Into Regenerative Design I stumbled across this concept totally by accident. Last summer, I was procrastinating on weekend data entry work…
Over the past few years, I’ve been following some remarkable building projects around the world that integrate natural elements in ways I never imagined possible. After spending decades thinking about…
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…
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 never expected to get so excited about office buildings and airports, but here we are. Last month, I finally made it to Seattle to see Amazon’s famous Spheres in…