The Monday Morning Building Product Advisor
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The Monday Morning Building Product AdvisorIssue #107 The other day, I caught myself doing it again… Thinking like a close-minded jerk architect! A colleague was explaining a technical detail to me, and I caught myself thinking, “You think I don’t know this? I’ve been doing this for 28 years…” Of course, I didn’t say any of that out loud. I’m too nice and diplomatic. But the thought still popped in there. And it made me think of a recent question I got from a reader. They asked: “How should a...
The Monday Morning Building Product AdvisorIssue #106 This weekend, I spent my early mornings writing. [Like I do every day of the week.] That's just what you do when you have a newsletter, awesome coaching clients, plus a full-time architecture gig. But, with several deadlines converging on all fronts, this weekend was split between client work and an architectural project. So, I let my wife know I'd be a grubby pup this weekend, secluded in my basement office all day, both days. She didn't...
The Monday Morning Building Product AdvisorIssue #105 Over the past year or so, I’ve seen this “legend” I really liked. It's about how the size of the Space Shuttle’s rocket boosters was based on the width of a horse’s rear end. In a nutshell, the story goes: The factory in Utah had to ship the rocket segments by rail to the launch site in Florida. Which meant they had to fit through railway tunnels. The tunnel width was designed to accommodate two standard railroad tracks. The 4 feet, 8 1/2...