Lab
A workbench for speculative pieces — visual essays and concept sketches that think through how something could be built. Not products, not proposals. Just ideas, drawn clearly enough to argue with.
The Grazing Wheel
Twelve pasture slices around one round barn, with hay, feed and straw in the middle and rows of fruit trees between the slices. A concept for circular rotational grazing, sized for 100 cows, with a calculator for your own herd, land and seasons.
The 100× Index
Google makes site owners request indexing one page at a time, about a dozen a day. A concept for letting verified owners push their pages, having AI screen each one at the door, and getting new pages into search about 100 times faster.
The Post-Labor Economy
If AI and robots take the jobs, wages vanish — so who pays for anything? A thought experiment on making a universal basic income affordable by manufacturing everything locally, and what that does to trade, cities, and who owns the machines.
Data Center Watershed
Running a data center on the rain that falls on its own roof instead of the local supply — catching, storing, and recycling it to cool from the sky, not the aquifer. For new builds and the halls already standing.
Data Center Spine
Burying a data center in the dead land under a high-voltage power line — shaped like a spine, cooled by the soil itself. A field guide with hand-drawn cross-sections and order-of-magnitude numbers.