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BASE

Field reports, essays, and working notes from the practice. The long-game, in public.

The career arc

How I got here, and the pattern underneath it: two decades doing research-to-reality translation inside other people's institutions, the trusted-producer relationships that came out of it, and where that's heading next.

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BASE is open for business

What BASE is, and what it is not: a running feed of field reports, essays, and working notes from the practice. Building businesses around stuff that's entertaining or engaging.

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The Canadian Tire Line

A national atlas of Canadian escape towns, using Canadian Tire and Home Depot presence as a rough proxy for liveability. One generator script, twenty-two towns, and a longer argument about where you'd actually want to land.

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Anti-fragile by design

Why the practices that last are built to weather the fallow stretches, not optimized for a single good year. Systems over sprints, and what that means for how a small studio is structured.

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