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# 063: ‘The Thicc Middle‘, with Daniel Davis
- URL: https://www.trxl.co/063/
- Published: 2021-11-23T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-13T12:43:07.000Z
- Description: A conversation with Daniel Davis.
- Author: Evan Troxel
- Tags: AEC Industry, BIM, Design Technology, Computational Design, Generative Design, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Writing, UI/UX, Daniel Davis, #sqs, #Import-podcast, TRXL Podcast, #ghost-concierge-2

Special guest Daniel Davis of Hassell joins the podcast to talk about his latest blog post about CAD's boring future and why it's exciting, the long tail distribution of architectural project typologies as a framework for his thesis, where he thinks the real opportunities lie for CAD software, how it relates to practice and employee expertise, horizontal vs vertical software applications, architechie startups and their approach to this problem, web vs desktop apps, and much more.

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### Links

- [Daniel Davis' website](https://www.danieldavis.com)

  - [CAD’s Boring Future and Why it’s Exciting](https://www.danieldavis.com/cads-boring-future/)
- [TRXL 035: ‘There‘s Not Much More to Extract’, with Daniel Davis](https://trxl.co/podcast/035)
- [Daniel on Twitter](https://twitter.com/dr%5Fdanieldavis)
- [Daniel on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdanieldavis/)
- *The Future of the Professions* by Richard and Daniel Susskind ([Amazon ](https://amzn.to/3c4EeXx)| [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/books/the-future-of-the-professions-how-technology-will-transform-the-work-of-human-experts-updated-edition/9780198799078))
- [Saltmine](https://www.saltmine.com/)
- Hayworth's [codesigner](https://www.haworth.com/eu/en/expertise/services/codesigner.html)
- [Hypar](http://hypar.io)
- [Testfit](http://testfit.io)
- Check out my other podcast too: [Archispeak](https://archispeakpodcast.com/)
- [My YouTube channel](https://YouTube.com/etroxel)

### Connect with Evan

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- [YouTube](https://youtube.com/etroxel)
- [Email](mailto:evan@evantroxel.com?subject=TRXL%20feedback)

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