Buried in this article on AI in the food industry: chefs using Midjourney to create the concept sketches for designers/architects. What happens when an AI takes over briefing and conceptual design? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/d...

These cubes are definitely not to scale. And you can't even read this graph without the table. Edward Tufte is weeping.

Bars are all different sizes, and make it 3d for absolutely no reason.

Some of the sloppiest 'research' I've seen recently. Seriously, why is the 5% bar half the size of the 39% bar?

Conversations on Claude over-index for architecture and engineering. These topics represent 4.5% of conversations but account for only 1.7% of the US workforce. www.anthropic.com/news/the-ant...

A tale of two cities. -89% takeup 🙃

LinkedIn's roundup of Big Ideas for Australia and New Zealand in 2025: www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-id...

They also see an inverse relationship between office attendance requirements and actual usage. In other words, companies with low utilization are the ones most likely to introduce a mandate. So if you see a company introducing a mandate, it's really a sign that their workplace is in trouble.

New study from Density finds that up to a 1/3 of office space in the US is used for less than an hour a day. Blows my mind that in a city like New York you can have a space sitting empty 23 hours a day. Not great for the environment or the economy!

insights.density.io/the-new-geog...

Meanwhile in America