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+title: 2026-04-29 20:25:22
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+daily: "[[2026-04-29]]"
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+# 2026-04-29 20:25:22
+
+## Heterodox Construction Estimating
+
+As a lifelong pedant, hater, contrarian, etc.
+when I first heard of [[heterodoxy]]
+as applied to highly-opinionated professional disciplines
+I thought immediately of my own highly-opinionated discipline
+in [[construction-estimating]].
+
+The existence of a heterodoxy requires that of an orthodoxy,
+and I believe [[holt_2023_estimating]] is typical of it.
+Construction estimating is simply finding the optimal price for a service,
+a process necessary of all service industries,
+frequently stated to be more art than science.
+Orthodox estimators may parrot the same refrain,
+but their own process is neither art nor science.
+It's much more like doing taxes:
+prolonged, tedious, opaque, over-complicated,
+and ultimately resulting in a value that no one is satisfied with,
+but that they have no basis to question.
+
+Also like taxes,
+orthodox estimating methods are assumed obligatory,
+but you can actually do whatever you want.
+It's a free country, man.