Hardware Needs Its Vibe Coding Moment
The question behind Protobench: how might AI change the act of making physical things?
Thinking in public.
Essays on the things I make, the things I notice, and the questions that connect them.
Writing gives ideas room to develop before they become a product—and somewhere to return when the making changes my mind.
Visit the OpusLABS SubstackAll You Need Is an Acre
Thinking about a more hands-on relationship with the necessities of life.
Build Broad, Refine Later
A case for exploration before narrowing the work.
The Problem with “You”
What the way we address an AI reveals about recognition and companionship.
The Curse of the Hybrid Engineer-Designer
Working across disciplines, and the friction of fitting between them.
The Emotional Resonance of Design
How objects acquire meaning through the lives we build around them.
Trust and Empathy: The Real Human Currency
On the human qualities that give connection its substance.
Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare
Treating reflection as a practice that changes what happens next.
Different ways of noticing.
An object, a conversation with AI, an acre of land. The subject changes; the curiosity carries through.
Meet the person behind the work