The Systems We Inherit: Rewiring the Invisible Blueprints of Our Lives
Take a moment to look at your current life: your job, your home, your daily habits. Which one of those feels like a "borrowed model"? Which inherited assumption is holding you back?
The Ohm's Law of Housing Affordability: Why the Circuit is Overloaded
Affordability isn’t just an economic problem. It’s a systems problem.
The Physics of Holding Together: Lessons from a Women’s Shelter
The shelter was small—four rooms, four families, four worlds pressed against one another. A quiet choreography of women and children moving through shared air, each orbiting the others, each carrying a different kind of weight.
Engineering Affordability: How Modular Thinking Can Repair the Housing System
Housing affordability is not a question of preference or lifestyle—it's a systemic failure.
Treading Water
Peter Ganglidge knows he is starting to lose control. Every day the pain gets worse, his energy is waning, and things are becoming harder to keep concealed.
Peaches and Pearls
Trails of dried tears ridge her cheeks, though she doesn’t recall why she was crying.
ADHD: The Chicken and the Egg
ADHD is often described as a chemical imbalance—a shortfall of dopamine, the neurotransmitter that signals motivation and reward. But that’s only half the story.
Neuroplasticity: The Tortoise and the Hare
The hare and the tortoise aren’t opposites—they’re phases of the same rhythm.
The Rooms That Rebuilt Me
Then one afternoon, rifling through a stack of papers I wasn’t supposed to see, I found some official looking paperwork and—
The Invisible Work of Collapse: Is Your Endurance Just Burnout in Disguise?
Pain is feedback—the body’s alarm system for hidden stress. When we normalize that pain (“everyone’s exhausted,” “that’s just the culture”), we mute the signal.
Not Meditation, Not an App: One Simple Habit That Crushes Burnout
Meditate if it helps.
Download the app. Take the walk.
Do whatever gives you breathing room.
But also—close the loop.
After the Implosion: How I Built a Life That Stands
Seven years ago, my life effectively ended.
Steel Logic: How Prefab Teaches Us to Design Better Systems
Prefab LGS isn’t just a building system—it’s a structural metaphor for systems that are light, strong, repeatable, and resilient.
Hijacking Your Brain: Tune In for Focus and Flow
It’s not that you need to push harder. You just need to listen differently.
Hijack Your Brain: The 80/20 Finish Rule— Escaping the Trap of Perfctionism
“80% done” isn’t math—it’s momentum. It’s the point where the core of your work exists clearly.
Hijack Your Brain: The Dopamine Tap
When motivation feels impossible, it’s not because you’ve failed at discipline. It’s because your brain is doing exactly what it evolved to do.
Hijack Your Brain: The Simple Science of Cueing Productivity
This productivity hack trains flow, making focus automatic.
Hijack Your Brain: The 5/55 Flow Method
Movement moves ideas.
Structural Compassion: The Design Principle for Success
The lessons learned in this piece didn’t happen in a sociology class or a thoughtful workplace. They happened in welfare offices with broken chairs and cold coffee.
Borne of the Winter
and what a time
to be wrought
from bleak skies, from
forlorn magpies.
