Design Philosophy: Don Norman — It's Not the User's Fault
Don Norman invented the term 'User Experience,' named the Norman Door, and proved that when a user fails, the design is broken -- not the person.
Design & CultureWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Design Philosophy: Pharrell Williams — Wealth Is of the Mind
Pharrell Williams built Billionaire Boys Club, Humanrace, and a Louis Vuitton creative directorship by treating design as curation, not fabrication.
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: Wang Shu — I Hate Perfect Things
Wang Shu builds with bricks salvaged from demolished Chinese villages. His Amateur Architecture Studio is a protest against speed, waste, and forgetting.
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 & CultureFrancis Kéré's Design Philosophy: Architecture as 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 & CultureFumihiko Maki's Design Philosophy: Creation Is Discovery
Fumihiko Maki built Hillside Terrace over 25 years, one phase at a time. His group form theory: buildings should participate in cities, not dominate.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Steve Jobs — The Back of the Fence
Steve Jobs wasn't a designer. He was the most demanding client a designer could have. His principle: use beautiful wood on the back of the cabinet.
Design & CultureNeri Oxman's Design Philosophy: Editing Nature, Not Consuming 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: Florence Knoll — I Am Not a Decorator
Florence Knoll invented the modern office by treating interiors as architecture, not decoration. Her Planning Unit changed how corporations think about space.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Charles Harrison — The Quiet Giant
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: 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 & CultureExternal Publications
Technical writing published 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.
