Kunle Adeyemi: Makoko Floating School & Water Architecture
Kunle Adeyemi built the Makoko Floating School on Lagos lagoon and iterated it across three continents. Climate-adaptive water cities.
Design & CultureWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Design Philosophy: Futura — The Signature as Art
Futura started on NYC subway trains, broke from letterforms into pure abstraction, and proved that a graffiti tag is the original identity system.
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: 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: Frank Lloyd Wright — Of the Hill, Not On It
Frank Lloyd Wright destroyed the box and built Fallingwater over a waterfall. His principle: a building should grow from its site like a plant.
Design & CultureDesign 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: 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 & 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: Kashiwa Sato — A Strong Identity Is an Icon
Kashiwa Sato redesigned Uniqlo, 7-Eleven Japan, and 1,700 products by stripping brands to a single icon. His method: zero in on the essence, then compress.
Design & CultureDesign 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: 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 & 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.