Ground. Work. Grow.

Min max your life.

One thing. Not every day, not everything.

You already own more than you use, because a room is bigger than you can keep track of.

Ground · what you already have

Inside a garage: daylight through the open door, a bulb lit overhead, a rack of plates
against the wall, a jump box, a sandbag, an air bike, and a person standing on the clear
floor. — The rack against the wall because it has to be, the boxes that never move, the clear floor in between.

The loop

Photograph a room and Groundwork draws it — simply at first, because a drawing can only show what the record knows.

Name what is in there and the drawing fills in: the shelf where the shelf is, the rack against the wall it is actually against. The room gets richer because your record did. Nothing is held back from you.

And nothing in it is made up. If it is drawn, it is there.

One room · every way of seeing itThe same garage. Eight treatments. The same things in it.

Eight ways to draw one garage

One garage, drawn eight ways. What the space means to you is different for everyone. What it can do is the same.

The same garage drawn as brighter. — Brighter

The same garage drawn as plants and light. — Plants and light

The same garage drawn as forest light. — Forest light

The same garage drawn as adventure map. — Adventure map

The same garage drawn as building blocks. — Building blocks

The same garage drawn as cutaway. — Cutaway

The same garage drawn plainly, as it is. — As it is

Groundwork. The vibes will be up to you.

Work · three moves

01Snap the roomEvery photo waits until you say there is no person in it.
02Name what you seeOne per line, and the photo is the evidence.
03See what it does togetherOne kettlebell is a squat, a swing, a carry and a press. A rack you cannot get to is not really a rack.

Grow · and the good stuff

A sunlit corner: a dog asleep in a patch of light, a book left face down on the rug,
plants trailing from a shelf and standing in pots by the window, a rolled mat and a
kettlebell against the wall.

The dog in the sun. The plant that has got away from you. You do not control any of it — nothing goes up because you showed up, and nothing goes down because you did not.

None of it scores anything. A room with less in it is not a worse room.

Under the picture

Every part of it came from somewhere. Nothing here is decorative.

16 × 20 ft, 8 ft to the joistsMeasured with a tape. No photograph can answer either.
12 × 8 ft of matting, three matsThe rack has one corner of it, so that is a bounding box and not usable floor.
The rack is against the right wallRecorded, not guessed — and what is on it comes off the record, not the drawing.

What one real record works out

52 things across 3 spaces, and what they do together. Every figure below was computed by the product from that record when this page was built — none of them is typed here.

7 ways to horizontal pushBench press
7 ways to conditioningAir bike intervals
7 ways to trunkSuspension fallouts
6 ways to horizontal pullCable row

One kettlebell is a squat, a swing, a carry and a press. That is why the number is not the count of what you own.

Nothing is backed up yet. Everything stays on your device, and clearing site data deletes it for good. Tell me what is annoying — “this is too much” and “I did not get it” are the most useful things you can say.

Groundwork · Evan Carrigan
No photo with a person in it is ever kept. There is no setting that turns that off.