✱ Weekly Photograph #24
This is an Alaskan caterpillar found up near Denali.
Evan Troxel
This is a great, short speech. Watch it.
Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you... So build a life. Don't live one.
I'm working on this myself and with my kids. Are you?
✱ Link: Archispeak 14 - "Normal" Business Hours
The latest episode of the Archispeak podcast is live on iTunes and the Archispeak website. After thanking our new Friends of the Show, we talked about the virtual leash that comes along with being hyper-connected to our profession.
The truth is that we have to be diligent and set our
✱ Weekly Photograph #23
The Art of Flight
Link: How and Why to Be a Leader (Not a Wannabe)
Umair Haque (Twitter link) at the Harvard Business Review blog:
Wannabes are something like metric-maximizing robots. Given a set of numbers they must "hit," they beaver away trying to hit them. The leader knows their job is very different: not merely to maximize existing metrics, which are often
Link: My 2d CAD software of choice
I wrote an article on Method that talks about what tool I've chosen for my 2d CAD work when doing architecture projects. I pretty much hate CAD, but it's a necessary evil.
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Link: Archispeak 13 - Missed Opportunities
In this episode:
Archispeak celebrates its 6-month anniversary! We reflect on the past 12 episodes and acknowledge Apple’s 1-billionth podcast subscription milestone. We then discuss why “good enough is the enemy of great” and explore why architects might design compromises into the project before it goes out of the