FIELD NOTES
Observations from the field.
Notes on land, form, leadership, systems and purposeful work.
There is a simple phrase behind Hurva: Make it.Better. The punctuation matters. Make it speaks to the practical side of the work. The doing. The shaping. The building. The designing. The planning. The
Hurva exists because some work does not fit neatly inside one profession, trade or discipline. That has become increasingly clear to me over time. I trained in architecture. I served in special operations.
I grew up as part of the game-boy generation; back then Tetris was considered a mind-blowing experience. It was revolutionary that we could have an entertainment device in our hot little hands, able
Modernity is awash with good intentions; people support all manner of causes as they capture the collective imagination. Few consider, though, the old adage of ‘good intentions pave the way to hell’ and
“But whyyyyy?” Anyone who has spent time around an inquisitive 3 or 4 year old will surely have had their fill of that simple question! Invariably, I grasp around trying to remember a relevant
I’ve spent a considerable portion of my life asking the question “what’s the point?” Often I am triggered to ask this sort of question when I don’t understand a predicament I am facing.