Fields Notes from Business Design — featured cards

FIELDS NOTES FROM BUSINESS DESIGN · FEATURED CARDS · 10 MAY 2026

Hand-picked highlights at the top of the /fields-notes-from-business-design/archive/ page. Curated for visual punch + categorical breadth; sits above the sortable list of every article in the section.

TL;DR

4 featured cards live on the section archive’s strip.
Categorical breadth: 4 sub-categories represented — Daring Acts, Future Media, Observations, Places.

The picks

1. Monticello Dam

Category: Observations
Link: /observations/monticello-dam/
Image: lake-drain-big.jpg
Excerpt: The glory-hole spillway at Lake Berryessa — 72ft wide, 280ft deep. One of the most dramatic overflow structures ever built.

Monticello Dam

2. Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia

Category: Places
Link: /places/uyuni-salt-flats-in-bolivia/
Image: uyuni-salt-flats-bolivia-wide.jpeg
Excerpt: 10,500 square kilometres of mirror-flat white. The world’s largest salt flat, photographed from above.

Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia

3. Cables under the ocean

Category: Future Media
Link: /future-media/cables-under-the-ocean-data-viz/
Image: seacable-data-viz.jpeg
Excerpt: Not satellites. A data visualisation of the submarine cable infrastructure that actually carries the world’s communications.

Cables under the ocean

4. Restrepo

Category: Daring Acts
Link: /daring-acts/restrepo-movie-opens-in-new-york-during-human-rights-film-festival/
Image: tim-hetherington.jpg
Excerpt: Tim Hetherington’s documentary following U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s remote Restrepo outpost — intimacy, bravery, and the reality of modern warfare.

Restrepo

How to rotate

Identify a fresh pick in /fields-notes-from-business-design/archive/index.html — look at the data-cat / data-title attrs on the list-cards below the strip.
Edit the featured-strip section of the archive’s index.html. Each .featured-card.has-thumb block has: href, img src, alt, .featured-card__cat, <h3>, <p>.
Backup before edit (CLAUDE.md convention): cp index.html "index.html.bak-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)".
Commit + push — Cloudflare Pages auto-deploys.
Re-run dare_archive_thumbnails.py --section fields-notes-from-business-design --variant c only if the underlying list-cards need their thumbnails re-injected; the featured-strip is independent.

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