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Paving Desire Paths in Cube Design and Cube Drafting
(Originally posted on my Substack on 12/18/25.)As a techy nerd who got into cube design during its infancy, and whose writing helped to pave the ground to define modern cube design theory, I wanted to discuss this topic for my 60th article about cube design as I felt a strong connection when I saw the…
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Going Through Cube Changes
(Originally posted on my Substack on 10/14/25.)Originally, this article was started in 2016 with the whirlwind of great sets in that year. It’s now 2025 and not only do we have more sets per year, but the sets are generally more powerful on a pound-for-pound basis. As someone who got into the world of cube…
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Micro and the Macro Aspects of Cube Design
(Originally posted on my Substack on 5/6/25.)Like with the idealized thinking/additive distraction article, the purpose of this is more to define a concept in more depth than a blurb of words would do, so that I can just link to it. Like with many things I’ve written about, it may be something you’re already doing,…
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The Cube Is Bigger Than You
(Originally written on my Substack on 4/23/25.)Since the early days of my cube writing, I’ve been wanting to do an article about defensiveness in cube design. I’d created several drafts of it, but it never got much further than “hey, don’t get defensive about cards in your cube.” I’d certainly seen my fair share of…