I find now to be an odd point in my life … then again, perhaps I am simply beginning to live. Almost a year ago now I first began to question my path moving toward being an architect as defined by the current profession and its fascination with star architects and a continual disdain for [...]
Today was rather interesting. I learned more of the fine-tuned workings of an institution of higher education. This time, the lesson seems to be that momentum is one tough cookie to break … particularly when the economy is not “on your side” as it currently is not. I keep hearing people lamenting the slow down [...]
There is this view of the mountains in the Shenandoah Valley that I always return to during periods of stress. Well, I don’t know about you, but 5 days in bed with fever and hallucinations sure counts as a stressful period for me. I must have visited this mountain a dozen times during those five [...]
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle the respected venture capitalist Vinod Khosla asserts that “Anything that requires people to change their habits has a low probability of success.” He goes on to say that his assertion has “been proven over and over again” and that it is now an accepted truth in the [...]
Here are some epiphanies to open the day … “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”~ Harry S. Truman, Pres. U.S. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”~ Albert Einstein “Memories of our lives, of our work, and our deeds will [...]
