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§ About the lab

One person, at a desk, with a kettle.

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I trained as an engineer and spent fifteen years in product organizations of varying size and weather. Along the way I built a personal habit of treating everyday infrastructure — kitchens, calendars, agents, routines — as a discipline worth studying.

Commonwork Lab is where that habit gets a public surface. Each project starts with a question I have about my own life and ends with a built thing, a record of what worked, and an honest note about what didn't.

The site is built by hand, hosted simply, and edited like a long-running essay. It will get slower and stranger over time. That's the intent.

Based
A south-facing room with a wooden desk.
Background
Engineering, product, household design.
Tools
Plain text, hairline rules, IBM Plex, a kettle.
Cadence
One field note a month. One project a quarter.
Open to
Correspondence on systems for life and work.
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