Design 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 & CultureWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Design 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: 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 & CultureJan Tschichold's Design Philosophy: Repudiating His Own Manifesto
Jan Tschichold wrote the manifesto for modernist typography, then spent his career arguing against it. Both positions were principled and correct.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Paul Rand — Don't Try to Be Original
Paul Rand built American corporate identity with wit, play, and the conviction that one solution is enough. His logos for IBM, ABC, and NeXT still work.
Design & CultureCharles & Ray Eames' Design Philosophy: Details Are Design
Charles and Ray Eames turned a WWII leg splint into a furniture empire. Their method: constraints are gifts, details are the design, play is serious.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Jony Ive, The Part You Never See
Jony Ive didn't just design how Apple products looked -- he designed how they were made. The unibody process, the diamond-cut chamfer, the inside of the case.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Kenya Hara, Emptiness, Not Simplicity
Kenya Hara designs for MUJI by removing everything that tells you what to think. His emptiness is not minimalism -- it is an invitation to participate.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Dieter Rams — Less, But Better
Dieter Rams designed 500+ products at Braun by asking one question: what can I remove? His ten principles changed how we think about objects.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Susan Kare — Meaningful, Memorable, Clear
Susan Kare designed the Macintosh icons with a $2.50 sketchbook and a 32x32 pixel grid. Her method -- meaningful, memorable, clear -- still works.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Virgil Abloh — Everything in Quotes
Virgil Abloh turned a civil engineering degree and a 3% change into the most influential design career of the 2010s. Everything in quotes.
Design & CultureDesign Philosophy: Dapper Dan — Knock-Ups, Not Knock-Offs
Dapper Dan built luxury fashion in Harlem with screen-printed logos and 27 Senegalese tailors. The brands that sued him eventually hired him back.
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.