Design Philosophy: Hiroshi Fujiwara — I Copy with Respect
Hiroshi Fujiwara introduced hip-hop to Japan, co-created Harajuku streetwear, and built Fragment Design on one principle: the selection is the creation.
Design & CultureWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Design Philosophy: Rejane Dal Bello — Citizen First, Designer Second
Rejane Dal Bello designed an alphabet that degrades like Alzheimer's. Her method: distill complexity into a simple idea with human meaning.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Diébédo Francis Kéré — Architecture Is Not the Object but the Objective
Kéré built his first school for his village while still a student. His buildings are climate systems, community projects, and architecture — all at once.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Kunle Adeyemi — Learning to Live with Water
Kunle Adeyemi built a floating school on the Lagos lagoon and iterated it across three continents. His method: infrastructure that adapts.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Tobias Frere-Jones — Type Exists to Solve Problems
Tobias Frere-Jones walked Manhattan block by block photographing signs, then built Gotham from what he found. His typefaces are civic infrastructure.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Daniel Arsham — Everything Becomes a Relic
Daniel Arsham casts everyday objects in volcanic ash and crystal, then presents them as artifacts from the future. His method: future archaeology.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Charles Harrison — The Biggest Bang You Never Heard
Charles Harrison designed the plastic trash can, the View-Master, and 750 products at Sears. His audience was the family on a quiet street.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Tinker Hatfield — Show the Technology
Tinker Hatfield saw the Centre Pompidou and decided sneakers should show their guts too. His visible Air window changed footwear. His Jordan III saved Nike.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Rick Rubin — Reduce Until the Identity Is Challenged
Rick Rubin co-founded Def Jam, stripped songs to their essence, and wrote The Creative Act. His method: subtraction, attention, and taste as production.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Neri Oxman — From Consuming Nature to Editing It
Neri Oxman coined 'material ecology' and built structures grown by silkworms and 3D-printed in glass. Her method: design with biology, not against it.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Zaha Hadid — There Are 360 Degrees
Zaha Hadid spent a decade as the 'paper architect' before her first building was built. She rejected the right angle and proved that fluidity is structural.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Paula Scher — Serious, Not Solemn
Paula Scher sketched the Citibank logo in seconds on a napkin. It took her 34 years to learn how to draw it that fast. Speed is mastery, not carelessness.
Design & CultureExternal Publications
Technical writing at Introl
Local LLM Hardware Pricing Guide 2025
Comprehensive hardware recommendations and cost analysis for running large language models locally.
H100 vs. H200 vs. B200: Choosing the Right NVIDIA GPUs for Your AI Workload
GPU selection guide comparing NVIDIA's latest datacenter accelerators for different AI workloads.
TPU Architecture: Complete Guide to Google's 7 Generations
Deep technical dive into Google's Tensor Processing Unit evolution from TPUv1 to TPUv5.
GPU Memory Pooling in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes
Resource sharing strategies for GPU clusters in containerized environments.
Ray Clusters: Distributed AI Computing Infrastructure
Guide to building and managing distributed AI computing with Ray framework.
DeepSeek V3 Open Source AI Cost Advantage
Analysis of open source LLM economics and DeepSeek's competitive positioning.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU 600kW Racks 2027
Future datacenter power requirements and NVIDIA's next-generation GPU roadmap.
SMR Nuclear Power for AI Data Centers
Small modular reactor solutions for powering next-generation AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek MHC Architecture Breakthrough
Technical analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Compression architecture innovations.