About Under Assembly
Stories from the beautifully irrational world behind every project.
Every project — whether it’s a home, a business, a system, or a life decision — looks clean and intentional from the outside. Inside, it’s a maze of small mix-ups, shifting priorities, human emotion, unexpected insights, and the quiet moments that teach you more than any polished outcome ever will.
Under Assembly is where those stories live.
It’s a field journal of the work we do before things look finished: the conversations, the details, the tension, the absurdity, and the strange clarity that appears when people try to build something together.
What You’ll Find Here
• Real stories from real projects
Scenes from the trenches — villas mid-renovation, clients mid-crisis, teams mid-decision, systems mid-breakdown — and the unexpectedly human moments hidden inside them.
• Observations from the builder’s lens
The small details people walk past.
The things that go wrong for reasons unrelated to the thing that went wrong.
The moments that quietly define a project even though they never make it into a report.
• Where craft meets clarity
Design, architecture, renovation, workflows, personalities, priorities — explored not from a technical angle, but a human one.
• A narrative about building — and being built
How every unfinished thing in our lives quietly builds us in return.
Why Subscribe
If you work with people, build things, manage chaos, juggle moving parts, or live a life that’s constantly in progress… you’ll find something familiar here.
Expect:
thoughtful stories
behind-the-scenes moments
sharp observations
reflections on design & human behavior
essays about the unfinished parts of life
Delivered with clarity, honesty, nuance, and subtle humor.
A Note on Reality, Fiction & Intent
The stories in Under Assembly sit somewhere between the literal truth and the emotional truth of real projects.
They are inspired by real events, but details are changed, rearranged, or exaggerated to ensure anonymity — and to serve the storytelling.
Some factual inaccuracies are intentional.
None of the names, characters, or places are real.
These narratives are not designed to mock, expose, or harm anyone. They are humorous or thoughtful reflections meant to explore observations, ideas, human behavior, and the chaos behind the work we all do.
They do not always represent the author’s beliefs.
They are explorations, not declarations.
If a story resonates, it’s because the feeling is true — even if the details are not.
Join the Publication
Subscribe to get new posts as they’re published.
The best parts of every project happen while they’re still under assembly — and that’s exactly where we’re going.
