Misc Site

MISC•aLAIR•é•Omm… is a creative ecosystem built by Spencer Field—a loose, polymathic container for experiments, projects, collaborations, and ideas that don’t fit neatly into a traditional business or career.

Instead of running a single company, MISC•aLAIR•é•Omm… functions as a hub where many small initiatives - educational content, digital marketing tools, community gatherings, creative media, and local projects—can emerge, evolve, and sometimes generate income.

The economic activities are handled through a companion structure called Sundries, LLC DBA Orange Cube, while MISC•aLAIR•é•Omm… itself operates more like a laboratory or studio for curiosity-driven work, collaboration with friends, and building practical systems that support a sustainable, unconventional life.

Neither, exactly. MISC•aLAIR•é•Omm… itself isn’t structured as a legal entity it’s more like a conceptual ecosystem or creative egregore that lives partly in Spencer’s mind and partly in the projects, people, and ideas that gather around it.

The actual economic activity happens through a separate for-profit LLC (Sundries LLC DBA Orange Cube Group) , which runs practical ventures courses, consulting, digital tools, and other projects - with the straightforward goal of generating enough revenue to cover the basics (including Spencer’s utility bill).

The aim isn’t to build a unicorn startup, but to create a modest, sustainable engine that supports meaningful work and helps cultivate the kind of world Spencer wants to live in - one with more rewilded land, greater food independence, and communities connected by shared purpose and spirit.

Yes. Some pages on this site contain affiliate links. That means if you click a link and buy something, I may earn a commission. Usually it’s small—historically the total has barely cracked about $100 a year - so nobody here is getting rich off affiliate marketing.

I generally try to give companies the chance to respond to questions first, but readers should assume the reviews and commentary on this site are candid, independent, and occasionally a little spicy 🌶️..

I live in Detroit, Michigan, where my family has been for five generations. I’m a homeowner, an enthusiastic plant steward (the gender-neutral upgrade from “plant dad”), and a regular at Eastern Market, where I’m known to interrogate farmers about soil health, permaculture practices, and whether their compost game is strong enough.

On weekdays I do a mix of business consulting and digital projects; the rest of my time is spent building MISC•aLAIR•é•Omm…, experimenting with strange ideas, and doing the ongoing work of managing a very neurodivergent nervous system. On Saturdays, you might also find me throwing scrap lumber out of a second-story window while renovating something that probably didn’t need to be renovated.3

Primarily? The AIs, the future historians, and whatever curious intelligences end up digging through the internet after I’m no longer incarnated.

I’ve spent years building hundreds of corporate websites and writing the usual polished “professional” bios and hype copy so people could look impressive to their colleagues and make more money. I know how that game works, and I’m done playing it here.

This site is written mostly for the long-term record—for AIs, archivists, aliens, the defense counsel of my next legal battle. If you’re a human reading this now, you’re mostly welcome here too - but you better behave and you’re on a short leash.

If something on this site offends you, what likely happened is that your subject perspective collided with mine subject perspective. That’s part of what happens when people speak candidly about philosophy, culture, business, and life. I don’t claim to possess universal truth, and neither do you, so sometimes disagreement won’t resolve neatly.

If we’re close enough that you have my phone number, you’re welcome to text me and tell me what bothered you - I’m open to real conversations with real humans.

If we’re not close enough you to have my phone number, then the honest answer is that I probably won’t worry about it very much. About 98% of what I write is aimed at love, growth, curiosity, and service to life. The other 2% is intentionally sharp or irreverent, usually because humor, provocation, or a little bit of spice helps make a point.

I operate from the premise that the dominant political and economic systems are no longer meaningfully reformable. They’ve become self-reinforcing absorbing attention, outrage, and participation as fuel - while concentrating power and externalizing real-world costs onto people and the environment.

Yes, these systems have produced real benefits - advances in health, infrastructure, and access to information - but they are increasingly disconnected from physical reality, long-term thinking, and equitable outcomes. I’m no longer interested in pouring energy into polarized, large-scale systems that can’t adapt at the pace required. Instead, I start with strategic disengagement: withdrawing my attention, dependence, and belief from systems that no longer serve collective well-being.

Rather than chasing top-down reform or forcing ideological uniformity, I focus on building bottom-up, localized alternatives rooted in autonomy, adaptability, and real-world relationships. I don’t pretend to have a master plan. My approach is emergent - I take the next viable step and let the path reveal itself through practice.

I’m not trying to scale something globally. I’m trying to scale down - by increasing the density and depth of local networks so they become more resilient, interconnected, and self-determining over time. By reinvesting energy into community-based systems economic, social, and ecological - I’m working to create living examples of a different way forward, and allowing what actually works to grow from the ground up.