A Queen Anne Landmark on Ninth Street Hill Seen from the street, the Kress Home presents itself as a study in confidence, complexity, and deliberate
Category: Design
This is a straightforward article about bidets, online behavior, and money. Not a joke. Not an ad disguised as humor. An explanation, a case study,
At 510 Vine Street in Johnstown, there is a building that does not quite belong to its surroundings—and that is exactly why it matters. In
Open Source the Future: Why Food, Water, and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone
Open the Knowledge or Admit the System Is a Lie Capitalism, regulated trade, markets—fine.I’m not here to argue against exchange or incentive. Capitalism is very
The Charles Q. Clapp House and the Limits of Greek Revival The Charles Q. Clapp House stands as a well-preserved example of mid-19th-century Greek Revival
On Change, Systems, and Learning How the World Actually Works Everything is about water. Most people hear that and think I’m talking about survival. Drinking
If you want to understand Johnstown in one stop—its grief, its grit, and its insistence on being a real city again—you walk to the northeast
Seasonal Amnesia
This piece is offered in honor of the long side of the winter solstice. We have crossed the dark hinge of the year and come
A Monument to the Age When We Built to Last If you want to understand Indiana—really understand it—don’t start with the highways or the cornfields.
For the last decade, artificial intelligence has been built on a single, mostly unchallenged assumption: Smoother systems think better. Uniform processors.Uniform precision.Uniform clocks.Uniform routing.Minimal friction.