The origin story of a simple lake house that became the foundation for everything we now teach.   Before HODL House was a framework — before the Life Pattern interviews, before the Manifest, before any of the language we use today — there was a simple, not-fancy lake house my wife and I built for ourselves. We were 39. I was a baby architect obsessed with the early threads of what would become “personal architecture.” My wife was beginning her own commercial interiors firm. W

Why the next era of homes won’t look anything like the plastic boxes we built under fiat math.     Housing in a Post-Fiat World   Housing went wrong when it turned into a board game. Little green Monopoly houses overlapped with real life, endless rows of plastic boxes, ten feet apart, no windows on the sides, built to sell fast, not to hold life. Bankster-assigned values turned them into tokens, not homes. You bought a house as a leveraged way to keep up with inflation, or as