The Sawtooth Chart Was Never the Enemy
📰 The sawtooth was never the enemy. Phil Read makes the case that the jagged stopping points everyone spent twenty years trying to smooth away were where judgment got applied, and asks what replaces them now.
Evan Troxel
238: Half Your Day Isn't Design
A conversation with industry leaders about how BIM 2.0 tools consume half of architects’ day, the hidden “technology tax,” and strategies to reclaim design time and control software costs.
The Next AEC Tech Stack — Starting Thursday
A three-arc series on what's actually changing in the tools you use every day. Nine episodes, sixteen companies, no script and no approval on the final cut. Starts Thursday, August 20.
What Free Building Codes Actually Cost
📰 Two brothers put the building codes online in 2016. A year later the lawsuits started and never stopped. Garrett Reynolds on what it actually costs to keep the law free, and why the hardest part was never the software.
237: 'The Interns Will Have Interns', with Phil Read
A conversation with Phil Read about treating AI as an intern, preserving human judgment through sawtooth decision points, and the need to teach delegation early in architectural practice.
236: 'No One Can Own the Law', with Garrett Reynolds
A conversation with Garrett Reynolds about UpCodes' decade-long legal fight to keep building codes free, the impact of the Pro Codes Act, and how sustained litigation shapes the AEC industry.
Introducing Field Reports
A new home for TRXL interactive episode infographics — one page per episode, every visual breakdown, live for TRXL+ members.