Fumihiko 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 & CultureWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Design 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 & 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: 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: Rejane Dal Bello — Citizen First
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: 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 & CultureKunle 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 & CultureDesign 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: 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: 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: Matthew Carter, Type Hides Its Methods
Matthew Carter cut metal punches, then made Georgia and Verdana, the typefaces that taught screens to read. The constraint is the design.
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 & 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.
