Experiments (updated weekly)

What would comparing your life to everyone else’s look like if we could actually see all the paths people take? 002 · 2026Plotted HonestlyWhat comparing your life to everyone else’s really looks like. There’s a 75-year-old light above Boston that tells you the weather. Why do I still need to look at my phone to know what it’s saying? 001 · 2026Boston Weather BeaconThe Berkeley Building beacon, lit by the live forecast.

Before the series

2026The Plain VersionWhat is this actually trying to say? 2026In Service OfWhat if every service business were held to the standard of a five-star hotel?
Experiment 002

Plotted Honestly · 2026

See the lines
The question

What would comparing your life to everyone else’s look like if we could actually see all the paths people take?

What I made

An interactive visualization that plots different paths people take through life rather than presenting one timeline as the timeline.

Process

I started with the familiar feeling of being “behind” and wanted to see whether that idea looked different when visualized. The challenge was showing how varied people’s paths actually are without making the visualization meaningless.

Experiment 001

Boston Weather Beacon · 2026

Open the beacon
The question

There’s a 75-year-old light above Boston that tells you the weather. Why do I still need to look at my phone to know what it’s saying?

What I made

A live digital version of Boston’s Weather Beacon that translates the forecast into the beacon’s red, blue, steady and flashing language.

Process

I started with the original beacon rules, then mapped live weather conditions to its four states. I kept the interface deliberately sparse so the light itself does most of the communicating.

The preview cycles through all four states. The live version shows today’s.

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The Plain Version · 2026

See the examples
The question

What is this actually trying to say?

What I made

A small collection of complicated language reduced to its clearest version. Each example puts the original beside what remains when I strip away everything that isn’t helping the meaning.

Why I made it

I ask some version of this question constantly. About writing, data, interfaces, ideas, almost anything. The Plain Version was the first time I turned that instinct into something of its own.

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In Service Of · 2026

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The question

What if every service business were held to the standard of a five-star hotel?

What I made

A working library of hospitality principles, translated for industries that serve people, from legal and healthcare to finance, retail and technology.

Why I made it

I was interested in the tiny things great hotels do that make service feel unusually thoughtful, and whether those same principles could work somewhere completely different.

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