Writing
- Essay2026 · 105 min read
Software Got Cheap. Contracts Didn't.
When writing code costs almost nothing, value moves from applications to the handshakes between them.
- Research2026 · 1010 min read
Design the Party, Not the Dining Room
Every space makes promises to the bodies inside it. Written down as affordances, those promises become something a design can be scored against.
- Research2026 · 108 min read
Fifteen Guests and a Wallflower
Design the occasion a room has to survive, and let the people in it score the plan.
- Essay2026 · 107 min read
Work You'd Do for Fun
Why business software was dull, how AI changes the economics of game feel, and what work looks like when software answers back.
- Research2026 · 1012 min read
The Organisation Decides With Less Than It Knows
Institutional memory leaves when experts do. PROXY turns tacit judgement into queryable agents, advisory councils, and an immutable ledger.
- Research2026 · 109 min read
A Shell Is Built Three Times
The next gains in thin concrete shells come from closing the loop between geometry, construction and measurement.
- Research2026 · 106 min read
The Fabric Is the First Shell
Form-finding is moving from one shape to several, and from slow translation to fast iteration.
- Research2026 · 106 min read
Measure the Shell You Built
As-built geometry is becoming an input to structural verification, and it is changing what tolerance should mean.
- Research2026 · 106 min read
Qualify the Process, Not the Mix
Unconventional concrete shells cannot be approved on cube strength, and the evidence that replaces it is a record of how the shell was made.
- Research2026 · 106 min read
Steel Follows the Making
In printed and segmented concrete, reinforcement is designed around the fabrication process or replaced by geometry and joints.
- Research2026 · 104 min read
The Pour Is a Load Case
A concrete shell's most dangerous hours come before it exists, and two 2026 studies show how to model them.
- Research2026 · 097 min read
Gurgaon Has Plenty of FAR
Increasing floor area ratio changes how much gets built, but never how buildings meet the street.
- Research2026 · 097 min read
The State Touches Every Building Once
Why state housing designs go unused, and how speed-of-permitting reform creates the one window to attach design to choice.
- Research2026 · 095 min read
Two Shortages That Cancel
Redirecting mandatory architectural internships into municipal design cells gives students placements and cities in-house capacity.
- Research2026 · 098 min read
Design Got Cheap, Streets Didn't
Online design platforms brought ₹1,999 house elevations to every district in India, but generating pictures didn't solve whether the houses work.
- Research2026 · 097 min read
India Protected the Word, Not the Work
How a mandatory fee floor and a title-only law left Indian architects out of the housing market
- Research2026 · 097 min read
Pink Is a Dividend
Why Jaipur's heritage regulations work while Ahmedabad's stall, and how spatial rents make urban conservation enforce itself.
- Research2026 · 0911 min read
The Rebar Is a Loan
How credit, setbacks, concrete supply, and split governance produce the look of the ordinary Indian street.
- Essay2026 · 097 min read
Low Background Steel
The internet is no longer majority human. A fleet of sunken battleships suggests what happens next.
- Essay2026 · 0913 min read
Small to Big
Why BIM cannot compose: moving the built environment from locked CAD files to executable spatial contracts.
- Essay2026 · 098 min read
Your Pick Data Cannot See the Floor
Why warehouse pick timestamps fail to explain fulfillment bottlenecks without a spatial model of the physical floor.
- Essay2026 · 0915 min read
Spec to Site
The internet was written by hand until it wasn't. The built world is next, and the scarce thing at the far end of that shift is not drawing.
- Essay2026 · 096 min read
World Models Have to Beat an Agent with Blender
The falling cost of editable 3D is changing the benchmark for generative worlds.
- Research2026 · 0912 min read
When BIM Becomes Invisible
World models, digital twins, and the redesign of how the built world is conceived, coordinated, and operated.
- Essay2026 · 0911 min read
When Code Is Cheap, Judgment Compounds
The enterprise asset is the accumulated ability to specify, evaluate, and reproduce what works.
- Essay2026 · 0815 min read
The Irreplaceable Man
Physical AI is arriving faster than the infrastructure that carries it. Small businesses are where those two facts collide.
- Essay2026 · 085 min read
Anticipation and Memory: The Hidden Value in Hospitality
Why the two most valuable phases of independent hospitality happen before arrival and after departure.
- Essay2026 · 085 min read
Harvest Is Not Death
The fresh supply chain spends billions chilling managed corpses. Plant physiology suggests a far simpler alternative: keep produce alive all the way to the plate.
- Essay2026 · 082 min read
The Distillation Economy
How open weights, quantization, and local inference are rewriting the geopolitical supply chain of artificial intelligence.
- Essay2026 · 0811 min read
The Abstract Machine
Why we stopped writing solvers and started writing the thing that writes them
- Research2026 · 0814 min read
The Descent Networks of Calandra
A technical appraisal of gravity-glide urban transit
- Essay2026 · 088 min read
The Company Is a Flowchart
Why the hardest problem in enterprise software is a modelling error, and why the fix has to be free
- Essay2026 · 0812 min read
The Plural Shelf
Consumer decision trees model an averaged shopper who does not exist, and function alone has stopped being sufficient to sell
- Essay2026 · 0812 min read
Can a City Take a Joke?
Phantom infrastructure, public art, and the case for civic self-annotation
- Research2026 · 0814 min read
The Volume Asymmetry of Physical AI
Why physical intelligence requires capex substitution, edge perception, and owning the unrecorded state of space over time.
- Essay2026 · 089 min read
3D Was Never an Interface
Why the spatial turn in artificial intelligence is a data argument, not a display argument
- Essay2026 · 074 min read
Machine-readable, then machine-run
Why physical retail must become a digital substrate before agentic AI can run it.
- Essay2026 · 0711 min read
AI Decentralization Ends at Your Dinner Table
The intelligence race pushes AI onto owned hardware, then onto your body. A three-to-four-year chain, told as a story.