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+id: 2026-03-23T12:48:49-04:00
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+title: 2026-03-23 12:48:49
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+date-created: 2026-03-23T12:48:49-04:00
+daily: "[[2026-03-23]]"
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+quarterly: "[[2026-Q1]]"
+yearly: "[[2026]]"
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+# 2026-03-23 12:48:49
+
+Joel asked me to give feedback on the project engineer
+I've had shadowing and helping me on [[charlotte-south-end-hotel]].
+
+They've been exceptionally engaged,
+with an impressive ability to follow along with procedures
+that are based in electrical and general construction considerations
+that they weren't already familiar with.
+I told Joel the same.
+
+I added that I appreciated that their engagement extends
+to my explanations of my thought processes during takeoff,
+which can be quite abstract.
+
+I found the PE's receptivity
+a pleasant surprise.
+
+In my experience training estimating,
+both at Ace and PDI,
+I have to be _very_ careful with my words
+to prevent unintended interpretation.
+More than once I have said casually
+that some low-[[sensitivity]] consideration "doesn't matter",
+finding later that the student has over-generalized the direction
+and is not properly discriminating
+between significantly different cases.
+Other times,
+the student continues to discriminate between nearly identical cases
+even despite repeated instruction
+that consideration of the differences is not worth their effort.
+
+I think both behaviors indicate an inability for abstract thinking.
+The first case seems like over-abstraction,
+but in practice it is usually rooted in the principle of least effort.
+That is, the student assumes
+that considerations that would be _unpleasant_ to account for
+are the same as those that are not worth accounting for,
+which is a [[category-mistake]].