Journal
Considered writing
on better living.
Short, well-made pieces on nature, design, restoration, land, longevity and the science of living well. Not a blog. A journal.
Nature + Science
Why nature is infrastructure, not decoration.
The evidence for nature exposure as a performance enhancer is not new. What is new is the infrastructure to act on it. We examine the research and what it means for how we build.
Recovery
What a cold plunge actually does — and why it works.
The biology behind cold water exposure, plainly explained. No wellness theatre, no ancient ritual framing. Just the mechanism and the evidence.
Design
What we learned building the first cabin at Fernmount.
Decisions made in the field, away from the mood board. What the land taught us about the design, and what we changed.
Wellbeing
The problem with the modern wellness industry.
Why a multi-billion dollar industry has produced so little structural change — and what a better model might look like.
Performance
How light governs performance: a case for sleeping differently.
The circadian evidence for changing how, where and when you sleep. And why most built environments work against it.
Work
Why remote work still fails most people — and what changes that.
The missing variable in the remote work debate is not bandwidth or time zones. It is the quality of the physical environment and what it does to the human nervous system.