Brainstorming

Index card reading (in part) Head (Barclay V) Historia numorum: or ma....
Tools for Thought

Ask Your Notes, Not ChatGPT

I’ve been working for years on “life garden” document, trying to come up with an at-a-glance view of where my life is working and where it isn’t. I’ve been trying to apply Christopher Alexander’s principles of living structure. And I’m stuck. My document has all kinds of structures and centers and boxes and arrows. But…

Architecture

First Step to Design – Use Your Words

Starting a design with a sketch risks starting with too much information – and information that is likely not a good fit with the project. There becomes a risk of working on and strengthening irrelevant parts of the structure at the expense of latent centers that are essential to the project. Christopher Alexander proposes starting…